Justin Ryan [PHT] wrote:
> Hey guys, I just heard from Paul Schmidt at Photodex. apparently after
> sending an announcement to this list that CompuPic was available for
> download, he was unnecessarily flamed by our list maintainer.
>
> He sent a post to this list because he had been asked by many people at UT
> to let him know when the compupic beta would be up, and he figured that
> this list would be the easiest way to inform them. Paul isn't the enemy,
> he's a pretty nice guy and had he known that letting siglinux know
> compupic had been relesed was one of the deaadly sins, I'm sure he
> wouldn't have made the post.
>
> It is these immature acts that alienate companies from the linux
> community. Paul was accused of spamming, simply because there are mailing
> lists for new software, it was said, there should be nothing about that on
> the siglinux list. If there should only be one list, or group, for each
> subject, may I ask why austin has 3 linux user groups?
>
> If this was just a blatant violation of policy, paul should have been
> warned, politely asked not to do it again. Instead he was banned from the
> siglinux list.
>
> Paul was pretty shocked and upset by this. He wasn't trying to exploit
> the siglinux list as his personal sales arsenal, he's just proud of his
> new software and likes to know that people are using it.
>
> I'd like to know if *anyone* other than Chris had a problem with Paul
> posting that photodex was out. There aren't many austin companies selling
> linux software, it's nice to see that there is at least one making an
> effort to be a member of the linux community. They've already made one or
> two small contributions to free software and have several others in
> planning. This is not the next microsoft, it's a fairly small austin
> company that we should support.
>
> That's just my opinion, I could be wrong :)
>
> Justin
>
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