Re: [OSCOM] Open-source digital asset management packages

Michael Wechner wrote:

> Dear Paul
> 
> I don't know why you have these harsh feelings about Tony and
> whatever your reasons are and if they are justified or not, but
> I don't think that "flaming" will help the community.
> 
> Tony helped me (and maybe others as well) by mentioning fedora, because 
> I didn't know it and it seems quite an interesting project.

Michael,

	Do you know how Tony Byrne learned of the Fedora Project? He learned of 
it from me. I mentioned Fedora on another CMS mailing list 
([email protected]) just a few weeks ago, after an OSS CMS 
developer (Olli Aro) asked the members of that list to identify an OSS 
_document_ management system. And Byrne subscribes to that mailing list, 
too, just as I do.

-- Paul Bain

> 
> -- Michael
> 
> 
> Paul D. Bain wrote:
> 
>> Tony Byrne - CMS Watch wrote:
>>

>>> Someone stumped me recently by asking whether I knew of any open-source
>>> DAM projects. I've heard of fedora (http://www.fedora.info/) and know 
>>> that some people
>>> use traditional CM packages (like Zope) for basic media asset
>>> management. Am I missing any other ones with reasonably wide support?
>>
>>
>>
>>     Tony, let me refresh your memory. Fewer than two years ago, on 
>> your web site (www.CMSwatch.com), you disparaged open source (OS) 
>> CMS's, saying that they were _all_ inferior as compared to proprietary 
>> CMS's and that no one should consider using a OS CMS. Now, I see that 
>> you are asking for help from those who use and develop OS CMS's. You 
>> are asking for help from those people whose work you have disparaged! 
>> I am amazed that someone who disparages OS software would have the 
>> effrontery to ask for help from the OS community. Your effrontery 
>> amazes me.
>>
>>     I sincerely hope that no one on this list will give you any help 
>> whatsoever. Get your damned ass back to CMSwatch and that mailing list 
>> for the mentally retarded, [email protected] The participants 
>> on that mailing list _love_ proprietary software, just as you do, and 
>> for the same reason: you and they are morons.
>>
>>     Please, folks, do NOT help Tony Byrne. He is an enemy of the OS 
>> community and a damned bastard.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Paul Bain