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

Paul D. Bain wrote:

> 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.


ok. Just being curious. Did you point Olli Aro to the OSCOM mailing list?

I can partly understand your anger. Everyday I have great anger against 
car drivers
because every day they nearly kill me during riding my bike. But most of 
them
aren't bastards, but they rather don't realize what it means sitting on 
a bike
and being nearly killed by their driving. I often point my finger at them
but to be honest I had to realize that this doesn't help at all, because 
they
are not what they seem to be. What really helps me is focusing on myself and
my own cycling.

Maybe the comparison doesn't fully apply to Tony and you, but just as 
Paul Everitt
I think Tony is a very nice person and can help the community a lot.

I have also met Tony a couple of times and if my impression of Tony 
would be wrong
then I would really be a great fool.

But yes, Tony makes his living within another world with different rules 
and I think
we just have to accept that. I guess we just have to be patient and keep 
going
our way.

Thanks

Michael

>
> -- 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
>>
>
>


-- 
Michael Wechner
Wyona Inc.  -   Open Source Content Management   -   Apache Lenya
http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
[email protected]                        [email protected]