missing context (was Re: [WBEL-devel] Open Letter to John Morris, Beau WBEL members, et al.)

[donavan nelson]

I feel that I have a right to respond to this on-line.

> > When I first emailed you regarding WBEL (mailed at 11/18/2003 20:38:54
> > CST responded to at 11/19/2003 03:08:15 CST), your response was very
> > encouraging.
> 
> I know, you seem to think this will be the next best thing to sliced 
> bread, and a great ground floor opportunity.  As in:
> 
> > > Are you going to place any restrictions on the ISO images that are
> > > produced as "-final"?  Or would you consider it?  Nothing crazy,
> > > something along the lines that you can't sell disks with the FINAL isos
> > > on them.  But they can be freely downloaded and shared, just not sold.  
> > > I'm not certain if such a license exists, but I'm sure it does.

I wrote that (it's a direct quote), but it's missing some context.  The only
thing I'll defend here is that it's intention was to make WBEL self
sufficient.  Instead of relying others for bandwidth donation, sell reasonably
priced CD sets to recoup the costs of running a high bandwidth web server
capable of supporting a project of this size.  And yes, profit is (was a)
possible, but hardly enough to matter (it would require massive volume).  (If
anyone cares, I'll email you OOcalc spreadsheets with the numbers I calculated.)

That's all I'll "SPAM" the list with, if you are interested in my full emails
(sans john's responses and unrelated topic matter in same emails),  Please
mail me OFF-LIST.

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Donavan Nelson
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