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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Katabase
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2001-09-24 16:22:42
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At 09:18 AM 9/24/2001, you wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:07:41PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > Shawn, your product Rekall is not for users of KOffice until they buy 
> it from
> > you, this means that the original poster is not helped at all with your 
> statement.
> >
> > To state my meaning with this email; please don't abuse the KOffice 
> list for
> > advertising of your products, this only leads to confuse users and 
> developers.
> >
> > I really dislike the way you don't answer the licencing questions until 
> they
> > are asked very specifically, this only adds to the confusion of our 
> users, and
> > will not really help them into your direction as well. (can you say 
> disinformation?)
> >
> > Sorry for the harsh words, but I think this is a known concept for a 
> mailing
> > list in the Open Source world. You could have known better.
>
>Thanks, this is exactly what I meant with my question.
>Answering "katabase is there" for _users_ who are looking for a database
>product is fine (IMHO), but answering that to _developers_ who are looking
>for an opensource product to contribute to, is just inadequate.

I saw that this was the 'koffice' list and not the 'koffice-devel' list so 
my response seemed to be relatively appropriate other than the fact that it 
isn't a Koffice product/project.

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