Re: Correction to your WWW-page

[Domenic R. Merenda]

rms,

   I haven't really been following this thread, but if you're referring to
the BeOpen Portal Network, please allow me to clarify.  You and I spent some
time debating phraseology for "Free Software" in Montreal at the Linux
Business Expo, as well as the possibility of a Free Software magazine.  We
were a premier sponsor (we're the company on the cover of the expo guide,
also) of this event.  We are not actively selling software or support at
this time.  The links and resources we provide to the community are free of
charge for all to enjoy.  Our web-sites include BeOpen.com, GNULinux.com,
and LinuxDEV.net.  Formerly, we also developed and maintained Geeks404.com,
PythonLabs.com, and Python.net.

   On a side note, BeOpen.com was also the company which employed Guido van
Rossum and his core team of Python developers.  During this time, we
released Python 2.0, freeing this software from many of the restrictions of
CNRI's license.  You personally have provided us with interviews through one
of our staff writers, Sam Williams.  Bob Weiner, or founder, is the creator
of the popular software packages Infodock, Hyperbole, and The OO-Browser.
He was also a part of Project Athena at MIT.

   Does this jog your memory of the site?


Thanks.
--
Domenic R. Merenda
Vice President, Business Development and Sales
BeOpen.com, Inc.
Direct: (408) 985-4705


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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: Correction to your WWW-page


>     > Thanks a lot for sending us the info. But the website you mnention
>     > is a commercial site, and "sells" csoftware, and hence we cannot
>     > make a link to it.
>
> Selling copies of free software is not against our principles.  If all
> the software they sell is free software, that is no obstacle to our
> making a link to their site.
>
> We have a second rule for links: we don't link to sites that have
> obnoxious sales-pressure in their tone.  (This is not the same
> as simply selling things--that, in itself, is not objectionable.)
>
> I have not seen the site myself, so I don't know how it shapes
> up on these two criteria.
>


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