RE: Response: PHP website - OS Convention - ThoutReader - Screen shots

Dear Rasmus, I understand your position and appreciate your prompt response. What I learned from our exchange is that: 1. We need to better clarify our licensing agreement to eliminate any doubt on how the ThoutTReader can be used. This will be done prior to our July 27th launch. 2. We have set a very high mark on a concept that has never been done before. If the developer response from the MySQL convention is any indication of the acceptability of the ThoutTReader, then we expect to meet and exceed your requirement to be listed on your site. Let's see what the next 6-12 months will bring. Our initial launch and distribution effort begins on July 27th. In the meantime, we will champion PHP from our website and provide vertical content (PHP books) in the ThoutTReader format to supplement it. Thank you very much for your feedback. It only makes us better. Mark ============================================ Mark D. Carey President OSoft, Inc. 2511 S. Hood Street Tacoma, WA 98402 253-284-0475 mcarey@osoft.com www.OSoft.com "Mind Altering Software" ============================================ -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@php.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:16 AM To: Mark D. Carey Cc: derick@php.net; gabor@hojtsy.hu; webmaster@php.net Subject: RE: Response: PHP website - OS Convention - ThoutReader - Screen shots On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Mark D. Carey wrote: > Q: How do you generate money to sustain your program? Well, actually, I couldn't care less how you plan to make money. The fact is that you are a for-profit company trying to use PHP to establish a market for yourselves. I have no problem with companies trying to make money from things, but I don't see why we should spend any effort at all on your behalf. We answer to our users and not a single user has ever asked for our documentation in your format, so why should we do anything here? If and when your stuff catches on and there is demand from us to do something, we will have a look at it. For now as far as I can tell you have already converted our docs and make it available from your web site, so that seems like it would satisfy people who actually use your reader and want to see the php docs in your format. -Rasmus