John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 14:48 +0000, Lars Stavholm wrote: >> Kevin Menard wrote: >>> On 1/30/08 9:23 AM, "Lars Stavholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>> More info on the release and discount coupon codes: >>>> Coupon codes? >>>> I think you're missing something fundamental here! >>> Perhaps. I'm certainly not a marketing guy. If you'd like, you can pay >>> full price ;-) >> Are you mad, or just very young? >> >>> Our marketing folks tend to be pretty selective about promotions. I try to >>> push for one when we do plugin releases. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. >>> The Nagios community has been pretty good to us, though, so we try to offer >>> them something a little more. I tend to push for coupons just because >>> they're simple to use *shrug* >> You're still missing the point! >> This mailing list is not for pushing anything, >> whether it's from your marketing guys or yourself. >> /L >> > <snip> > Lars, I think you have misunderstood Kevin. I was first taken aback by > at the thought of needing a coupon to buy an addon to Nagios until I > went to their site. The plugin is entirely free and a great > contribution in support of Nagios. The hardware that enables the > product to work is what is sold. I wouldn't expect them to be providing > the hardware for free ;)
Fair enough, sounds reasonable. But I still would like this list, and all the rest of the mailing lists I attend, to stay clear of expressions like "discount coupon codes". There's got to be other ways of advertising your products. And please don't misunderstand me: I'm all for products like WebReboot and others that takes the excellent nagios software in to the corporate world. If done properly, that can only be good for the product in question, and therefor good for anyone using the product, be it in a non-profit or commercial capacity (like myself:). However, I still don't want to be lured into reading "discount coupon codes" or anything similar on this or any other open source software mailing list. The advertising of open source (or any other) software products already occupy most if not all other media channels. Leave the mailing lists alone! Cheers /Lars ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
