12 Nov
2013
12 Nov
'13
11:15 p.m.
HI Harald,
I appreciate your care about the community and I won't post anything
related to our commercial activities to this mailing list from now on.
But I should say, that I disagree with you in your assessment of my
e-mail as spam. I always care about community and gauge all my posts
from a user perspective, and I wouldn't classify this as a spam. My
reasoning is as following:
1. If I'm a user of Osmocom, I'd be interested in meeting a vendor in
person, given a good occasion.
2. If I'm a user of Osmocom, I'd be interested in announcements of new
products, compatible with Osmocom (this is a general comment,
unrelated to this exact e-mail).
May be we should create a separate (low-traffic) mailing list for
commercial announcements, related to Osmocom? That might be a useful
way to promote a healthy ecosystem around it.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> wrote:
Dear Alexander,
please immediately stop using this (or any other osmocom.org mailing
list) for commercial advertisement and marketing of any sort.
If you check the history of this list, you will notice that Holger and I
at sysmoco always have drawn a _very_ clear line and did never abuse the
community lists for any kind of spam. Despite us funding the
OsmoDevCon, paying for osmocom.org hosting, etc. The same holds true
for the *.osmocom.org web sites. We expect the same discretion from
other subscribers.
To be honest, I would have expected more sensitivity from you regarding
the use of FOSS community communication channels for unsolicited
commercial email.
I will immediately remove your advertisement from the list archives.
The only posts of commercial nature that I can recall are the occasional
single-unit second hand sale of nanoBTSs and related equipment by
individual subscribers. I consider that fair use, as it is of course in
the interest of OpenBSC to enable community members to get access to
inexpensive equipment for R&D, testing, etc.
Regards,
Harald
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Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ООО УмРадио
http://fairwaves.ru