[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: ANNOUNCE - PerXML Released
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Clark C. Evans wrote: > There is a big difference between announcing > the availability of open source software which > I can learn from, and announcing the release > of a new/improved closed source program which > I cannot freely use, adapt, and modify. For me, this difference is not important. I use both open source XML tools (e.g., Xerces) and commercial ones (e.g., XML Spy). I first learned about Xerces and XML Spy from xml-dev announcements. > If every XML related commercial product were > announced here, the noise ratio would be > extremely high... Jobs, commercial products and commercial services are announced on xml-dev, and, from my perspective, these announcements are small in number. In recent weeks, I think there's been more Haiku posted to xml-dev than commercial announcements. :-) Regarding signal-to-noise ratio, one person's noise is another person's signal. > Lastly, there is a captive audience of serious > professionals here. A post costs us all a good > deal of time ($$). I welcome the commercial announcements that are related to XML development. So, for me, the time I spend reading them is time well spent. If you feel that you are spending a lot of time reading and deleting commercial announcements, then you could write a mail filter to help automate the task (e.g., delete message if the Subject contains "Announce" or "ANN:", except when the body contains "open source" or "GPL" or "CPAN" or "source code" or ...). If the list adopted Dave LeBlanc's suggestion (i.e., including the word "commercial" in the subject line of commercial announcements), then the mail filter would be very simple. > Commercial vendors > are not paying for me to see their advertisements. > Are they? Why should they be privleged with > advertising rights upon a medium which they have > not built. I'm pretty sure that the owner of the list does not prohibit commercial announcements. Therefore, in my mind, the commercial vendors are not doing anything wrong. Of course, if the owner of the list decides to prohibit these announcements (or charge for them), then commercial vendors should respect the decision. Best regards, Bob
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