From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3859 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 16:41:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3844 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 16:41:43 -0000 Subject: re: announcements From: Gary Thomas To: Alex Schuilenburg Cc: eCos Maintainers , Peter Vandenabeele Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:41:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1046104902.21671.387.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 Alex, I would very much like for you to make public clarification of your announcement, as you have done to me privately. The things I find misleading or missing are: * This offer is not coming from the maintainers [at large] * Proceeds are to go toward test farm improvements * The CDROM contents will be available for [free] download All that was present in your text was the [seemingly] commercial plug. If the above statements are indeed true, I think that they should be part of the public information. Even the web page mentioned in the announcement has nothing to say about them, only how to order. You also pointed out to me that there have been some harsh feelings about email signatures appearing on the ecos-discuss list(*). This is nothing compared with what appears to be a blatant commercial announcement that you've sent out today. (*) I started using such a signature in August of 2002. The fact that it changed to be a Mind signature (which is little different) is what seems to have caused the friction. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------