Link suggestion for the TUNES Project site (fwd)

[Francois-Rene Rideau]

Dear M. McClintock,

> Hello. After visiting your site last week, I thought you might be
> interested in linking to the Object Design web site to provide your
> visitors with a resource for object data management products and solutions
> for Java, C++ and XML-based applications.

Thanks for contacting us.
We'll add your site to the list of sites we ought to review.

Note that we don't consider proprietary software as solutions
to any long-term problem, but as part of the problem set.
We disrecommend proprietary software from our readers,
even though we still appreciate the technical innovation
that might be hidden in it.
[We also consider Java, C++ and XML as part of the problem set;
but at least they are free standards that can be survived with]

Question: what do your tools bring over Texas, PLOB,
and other free solutions?
If the answer is "support", then why not make your software free
(free of rights, not free of charge) and just sell support?
See www.zope.org for a free software competitor of yours...

> Please visit www.objectdesign.com and let me know if you
> would be interested in linking to the Object Design web site.
We will indeed visit your site.
And if you wish to be informed of what our review of your site will be,
I'll send you mail when we have one, so you can help us improve it.
But I hope you're not implying that you require permission
to link to your site; such a requirement would be both morally insulting
and legally null, anyway.

Note that your site not being standards-compliant
makes it more difficult for us to review it.
	http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

> Icon Code: [...]
Our policy is to be free from mind-clobbering graphics.
Only technically useful graphics are allowed.

> Plain Text Link:
> <A HREF="http://www.objectdesign.com">Object Design - The leading provider
> of object data management products and solutions.</a>
Our policy is to not replicate commercial (or other) hype.
Of course, if the text was meant for
a well-separated advertisement space, that'd be different.
Now, we don't support advertisement and we don't think you'd be interested
in paying for such a low-traffic site anyway.

Regards,

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