Re: [NC] The future of News Clipper
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, T. Ishikawa wrote: > Does this mean that you will continue to be the official maintainer of > the GPL version of Newsclipper? I plan to continue to maintain it. > You said that you will do bug fixes and some handlers, but what if some > one (not me) wanted to "take over" the project. I would be willing to share responsibility for it, in the same manner that Linus Torvalds shares responsibility of the Linux kernel with very bright folks like Alan Cox. David If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes).
Re: [NC] The future of News Clipper
> I know there is an "open source" version -- will you continue to > contribute your efforts to that? Yes! > How "current" is the version on open source when compared to what was > know as the "commercial"version? The open source version currently has improved security, and several bug fixes. See the change log for more details. Once I get the new commercial version out, they will be at the same development point. > Are you interested in help co-developing and marketing the commercial > version or just washing your hands of the attempt to "monetize" your > efforts? I'm interested in serving a technical advisor role if someone wishes to pick up the ball in terms of marketing and sales of the commercial version. There is evidence that marketing can help a lot--when I was with Binary Research, I sold 10 or 15 licenses a month due to their web traffic. Since then sales have dropped steadily to 1 a month or so. David P.S. In case anyone is anyone is wondering, I didn't get rich. Startup costs and the 50% split with BRI did not help my bottom line... Basically I ended up with a couple computers and some office furniture. _ David Coppit [EMAIL PROTECTED] The College of William and Maryhttp://coppit.org/ One thing the blues ain't... is funny. Stephen Stills, "Black Queen" If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes).
Re: [NC] The future of News Clipper
Hi David, Thanks for the update on your involvement with News Clipper and congratulations on the appointment. It's too bad that more users haven't seen the power of NC, but I guess that can be attributed to the dwindling handler library and more news sites moving to the RDF format. I continue to use NC faithfully everyday to check the sites that are interesting to me and have finally begun to get a "handle" on how to create custom handlers. I plan to incorporate it into several of the websites that I am developing. Thanks for continuing to make the code available and I hope to be able to contribute to the ongoing development of this useful tool. Regards, William -- Lead Developer Knowmad Services Inc. || Internet Applications & Database Integration http://www.knowmad.com If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes).
