[Zope-dev] Competition

[Clark O'Brien]

Cool your heals dude. You said your 2 cents I said my
2 cents. good enough.
           Clark
--- sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> I'm going to suggest that this is off-topic for
> zope-dev, as this is a list
> fostering cooperation among developers who do not
> mind sharing their 'beans'
> and who do not hold the delusions of conspiracy
> theory.  If you are not
> willing to play by the ad-hoc cooperative social
> contract of this
> development community, please go away.  This is my
> last post on this matter,
> and I suggest others follow suit.
> 
> Anyway, you do know all kinds of embarrassing health
> problems can happen
> from hoarding beans, don't you?
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clark O'Brien [mailto:clark_obrien@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:44 PM
> To: sean.upton@uniontrib.com
> Cc: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] Competition
> 
> 
> No I am not implying anything other then there
> is competition in the Zope marketplace and ZC has
> positioned itself to be the one that ends up with
> the
> most beans.
> 
> This is what makes the free market work and I would
> do
> the same thing if I was in their shoes.
> 
> However, I am not in their shoes, and therefore
> don't 
> want to brand their company and don't want to add my
> beans to their pile of beans. Thats all I was
> saying.
>                         Clark 
> 
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> 
> --- sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> > Uh, this is brand clarification... Sometimes
> people
> > (well, people who don't
> > pay enough attention) don't get that company X is
> > associated with product Y.
> > Look what happend to Borland when they changed
> their
> > name to Inprise but
> > kept the old product names.  For those folks who
> > don't pay attention to
> > every detail of goings on in the Zope community,
> or
> > are not subscribed to
> > lists, or are new to Zope, I imagine that a name
> > discrepancy could be
> > confusing...
> > 
> > I hope you aren't saying that basic, well
> > thought-out, marketing strategies
> > are somehow predatory behavior?  Let's not even
> try
> > to compare this to
> > "hijacking" in the style of a certain
> Redmond-based
> > company.
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clark O'Brien
> [mailto:clark_obrien@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:57 PM
> > To: Casey Duncan; R. David Murray; Chris Withers
> > Cc: Stephan Richter; zope-dev@zope.org
> > Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Competition
> > 
> > 
> > I don't think ZC feels this way.
> > 
> > Note the comment by Hadar Pedhazur, Chairman of
> Zope
> > Corporation:
> > comment
> > at:http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/DC2ZC
> > 
> > "This name change is intended to ensure that Zope
> > and
> > the company that develops Zope are more closely
> > associated with one another in the marketplace."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Casey Duncan <c.duncan@nlada.org> wrote:
> > > I think its only competition in the same sense
> as
> > I
> > > am competing with all of 
> > > you for oxygen. 
> > > 
> > > Let's call it coopetition.
> > > 
> > >
> >
> /---------------------------------------------------
> 
> > >   Casey Duncan, Sr. Web Developer
> > >   National Legal Aid and Defender Association
> > >   c.duncan@nlada.org
> > >
> >
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