Thanks everyone for your comments and concerns.
Since it was in part my decision to terminate Darrell's Partnership, let me
speak up. I'm constrained in what I say largely because I want to do
Darrell the honor of protecting his privacy in this.
First, in response to John, we would never publicly disclose that we were
terminating a Partner agreement. Darrell himself publicly announced this to
the dev-info group.
We terminated the business Partnership betwen Darrell and e-smith for
reasons related to that business partnership. It's not a decision to be made
lightly but under certain circumstances, it's necessary. I have no doubt
about the rightness of this decision in this case.
Darrell has a separate relationship with us as a member of our open source
community. We've always appreciated his contributions to the open source
community and sincerely welcome his continued participation if he decides to
remain.
I hope this closes this topic!
- Kim
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Kim Morrison
Co-Founder / Chief Operating Officer
e-smith, inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rob Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "e-smith-devinfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] RE: Darrell May, DMC Netsourced.com
> Quoting Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> > /me checks date. Nope its not April 1..
> >
> > wtf!!!!
> >
> ...
> >
> > The amount of contribution you have made to this list is astronomical,
> > what a Microsoftian reaction to your email.
> >
> > If this is all true then I am absolutely disgusted with e-smith's
> > behaviour.
> ...
>
> Actually it's not a Microsoft reaction, I think. I know many re-sellers
> that chop MS into pieces all the time, publicly and privately. None of
them
> have lost rights to do business with MS or had their MCSE's or MCSD's
> revoked. Money is Money...
>
> It would be to e-smith's advantage to not do this sort of thing in public
> in the future, as it makes them look very bad, no matter what happened
> behind the scenes. It's best to just let the license time out. After all,
> Darrell may not have renewed if he was that unsatisfied with the
> performance of e-smith.
>
> When you sponser a public forum such as this, you must expect to
> take a little heat on occasion. It's the reaction to the heat that
> determines the mettle of those involved. Taking the ball and going
> home is rarely the best solution for any of the parties in the game.
>
> With that said, I hope both parties can come back to the game when
> things cool off a bit.
>
> I, for one, have been in contact with e-smith about setting up a
> partnership agreement. I will have to let a little time go by and
> see how things play out because of this little brouhaha. I'm sure
> I'm not the only one in this position at this time.
>
> It's unfortunate mainly because the e-smith product is excellent and
> because a lot of people have little experience with the open-source
> manner of doing business. e-smith has built a wonderful linux Small
> Business Server platform that has a lot of development opportunities.
>
> Having worked for a MS development shop for some time, I realize the
> costs involved in development and this platform opens a lot of
> avenues for partners that are not available with MS.
>
> It also opens opportunities for potential customers to save money on
> the initial startup expenses, but ultimately, MS or Linux, development
> costs money and time.
>
> With that said, remember, Patience is a Virtue.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John C. Cusick
>
> Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the
ark.
> Professionals built the Titanic.
>
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