Please note: This is NOT an official statement by the SA team. This is
a personal comment by a long-time reader of c't magazine, sad to see
lack of understanding and quality dropping yet again.
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:12 +0200, Stephan Ehrmann, c't wrote:
> (Bitte nach unten scrollen, um die deutsche Version dieser Mail zu lesen.)
Feel free to contact me off-list, if you need a German translation.
> Dear Software publisher,
>
> this year is the 25th anniversary of c't magazine. We celebrate this
> jubilee throughout the year with various activities like a programming
> competition. Our anniversary issue on Monday, the 10th of November, will
> come with a very special edition of our c't software collection. For the
> first time, this covermount DVD comprises only full or special versions,
> no freeware.
Open Source and Free Software are "full versions" by nature. Alas, they
qualify for the fuzzy and broad term "freeware" also. So you just
stated, that you're not going to include Open Source on that DVD? And by
conclusion you're not going to include this project either?
But you're happy to include crippled functionality "special versions"
(definition of the latter according to your OP), as long as there is a
non-free pay-for-use commercial version available. That's offering free
advertisement.
> We kindly invite you to participate by providing software
> for this outstanding DVD.
I kindly invite you to do your homework, and include Open Source
software without asking for permission.
[Skipping the large part about registration, serial numbers and crippled
"special versions with reduced functionality". A single form letter just
doesn't cut it always...]
> Please do not hesitate to answer this mail if you have either any
> questions with regard to the DVD for our anniversary issue or if you are
> uncertain whether a specific software would be suitable. We are also
> happy to help if there are any problems with the actual procedure of
> suggesting a program.
Please see above and elaborate on the statement regarding not including
freeware.
> We would like to conclude this mail with one request: Please keep the
> contents of this mail confidential.
Congrats, dude, you blew it. You just posted this to a publicly
accessible and archived mailing list. Confidential, eh?
guenther
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