>
> Most people here haven't sworn a vow against proprietary software, and can use
> it if they feel like purchasing it, Mr. Stallman ;). Actually, that peice of
> software looked like it did stuff that free software isn't doing yet. That
> doesn't mean it's evil, it's just a new project for somebody to hack together
> a clone for. It's a great big world, and there's plenty of room for everybody.
>
actually, and paul mentioned this in his post, the software is free for
personal use. They plan to make money selling to businesses and paul has
gone out of his way to avoid situations exactly like this one. It isn't
as if he's sending out product announcements every couple weeks, they've
been porting their software to linux for a couple of months now and the
first public beta just came out. This is their absolute first offering
for linux, ever. Let's not show paul how petty the linux community can
be. Let's read the advocacy howto because a lot of that applies here.
How many people here use StarOffice? Howabout ApplixWare? WordPerfect? if
the CEO of StarDivision wrote a personal letter to SIGLinux saying
'StarOffice 6.0 has been released, I just thought I'd let you guys know'
would he get a flaming response?
It would be one thing to send an e-mail saying 'hey paul, we have a policy
against announcements on the list, please send them through me in the
future'.. I saw the e-mail that was sent to paul and it was out of line in
any situtation.. Someone commented that his name was not common to the
list. There is so little traffic on this list that almost noone is a
frequest poster. If an open-source project had posted, say miguel de
icaza posted that a new version of gnome was released, would it be spam?
howabout if I forwarded the press release that I got for CompuPic because
I think it's a cool program and you guys would be interested in it?
Yall make Paul and Photodex out to be some big, thoughtless entity. Maybe
he just didn't realize that a short, simple announcement would be so badly
received. How are we to expect companies to port software to linux when
they can't even notify the community of its' availability. sure he
shouldn't send out a spam to every lug and linux mailing list in the
world, but sending one to a local list where he knew people, based on the
assumption that many of them were *waiting* for the announcement, was far
from spam.
Give him a goddamn break and go have a beer and blow stuff up, it's the
fourth of july weekend.. If you can't find anything to do go see the
southpark movie..
Justin
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