Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:49:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Cc: mallison@konnections.com, joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, chat@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <199704200219.LAA02344@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419145104.4592K-100000@thelab.hub.org> from The Hermit Hacker at "Apr 19, 97 03:23:49 pm"
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Just to step in and make a couple of points here. This whole thread is as boring as all hell, and I wish, if you were going to blow so hard, that you were actually _doing_ something about it. The Hermit Hacker stands accused of saying: > > need to go to ppl like StarDivision and convince them to port to us as well, > and the only way of doing that is showing a profitable need for them to do > so... No, we do _not_. We go to people like StarDivision and we say (I have said), hey wow, your neat software works really well on FreeBSD too. We'd like to work with you to keep it that way. Could you put a brief mention of this in your promo materials? Telling an ISV that you demand a port, for no market, is going to get you ridicule and/or abuse, depending on the ISV and the circumstances. > And what control does StarDivision have over distributing StarOffice > via ports? StarDivision have absolute control; SO is their product. They just happen to encourage its widespread distribution with _very_ liberal terms, a fact that I greatly appreciated. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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