Re: [Widelands-public] Your software on cover mount DVD in c't 24/08

[Florian W. <Flo...@pf...>]

Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 schrieb Martin Owens:
> It seemed to me that although it's a great importunaty for widelands.
> It's a shame that they don't understand open source, free software,
> community development or even "It's free god damn it!"; still nice to
> get notification and such, but they should write a different mass
> email for open source projects.

Well, yes, they could.

On the other hand, I suspect that the number of open source projects they 
contacted was tiny when compared to commercial entities. It probably was 
like "OK, let's look through the rolodex of advertising partners and of 
people that we did articles on and send them a mail.".
The second group, containing widelands, is much smaller than the first one. 
And while OSS is a notable block there, it's far from forming a majority. If 
I were to guess, I'd say the percentage of OSS recipients (vs. all 
recipients) is <5%.

So I do see their point in not having an extra letter.

I do admit, though, that I was at first sorely tempted to write a sarcastic 
answer that would have expressed your opinion. :-)

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Florian Weber

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