Re: [OSCOM] Open source DAM

Paul Everitt wrote:

>
> The strong feelings below notwithstanding, I would like to be the 
> first to state an alternate view.
>
> OSCOM invited Tony to speak at OSCOM 3 and I specifically encouraged 
> him to give us a blunt assessment of what we need to do.  I remember 
> the article you refer to.  I remember a few people took a 
> stone-the-messenger approach.  From my POV, I was happy to see someone 
> giving us a critical assessment, especially one that's been a pretty 
> good friend of open source CMS over the years.
>
> Tony's piece was constructive criticism.  We need more of this and I 
> hope Tony keeps participating.  Geesh, I hope Tony joins the OSCOM 
> board, but he's probably too busy for something like that. :^)
>
> I took the liberty of removing the addendum to the subject line.
>
> I also question whether the last line of the diatribe is a breach of 
> list etiquette.
>
> --Paul
>
> On Apr 2, 2005, at 2:28 AM, 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.com 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
>>
>>
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This is a Spartan approach?  I think it is one thing to be 
constructively critical and another to disparage.

In this case, it sounds like disparaging comments stayed in the 
sentiment. You can't really blame that either. 

Also, to expect Tony to be anything other than politically correct  is 
to expect something otherwise.