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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.orgHi Peter,
thanks for your feedback.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:57:01PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> I agree with you and Harald here.
To avoid any doubt, I have updated the mailing list rules
http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/MailingListRules
to include a chapter about spam/uce/ube. So at least from now on,
nobody can claim that it was not clear that such postings are not
welcome.
> But there is also a bootstrapping problem, and I think it *is* in the
> interest of the open source project to help those who seek commercial
> products and services which contribute to the project to find the
> right suppliers.
If some OpenBSC users inquired on the list here about commercial
support, I wouldn't consider a simple response like 'we are providing
commercial support' wrong. I just don't think they deserve to be sent
advertisements before they even raised the question.
> I'd like to point out that I think it was a good idea for Alexander
> to send an email saying that he was at the conference and inviting
> to meet up with anyone who wanted to chat - only the blatant
> advertising in the email was stepping over the line IMO.
I agree here, too. If it was just an "I'm at this or that conference,
OpenBSC users/developers interested in meeting up, please contact me"
then it would be outside of a marketing/advertising context, and merely
folks interested in OpenBSC meeting up.
Regarding a separate list for commercial offerings surrounding OpenBSC
or other osmocom projects: I'm open for that, and at least two people
have indicated interest in subscribing to it. Now we only need to find
a name for the list to go ahead. 'osmocom-advertisements' is not
correct, as the list is not about advertising Osmocom itself, but
products using it / compatible with it. 'osmocom-products' is also not
exactly correct. Any better ideas?
Regards,
Harald
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