Re: www.zmailer.org

[Dave Mason <dmason@scs.Ryerson.CA>]

Matti Aarnio writes:
> 	(just wondering aloud..)  How much there would be market
> 	for support of software that you get in source for free,
> 	and the free releases would be tracking very closely the
> 	paid supported version ?  This just because doing two trees
> 	in high quality manner is -- how to say -- "painfull"..

Cygnus does a reasonable business supporting GNU software.

Re: your comment about Telecom Finland making ZMailer its commercial
product.  Certainly they couldn't restrict access to the free zmailer
software, as per the copyrights.  I doubt they could even make a
commercial version without Rayan's approval.  Of course they could pay
you to build a product very much *like* zmailer (that might well be a
better product based on almost 10 years experience with zmailer).

So I don't think Alexis has much to worry about in terms of zmailer
becoming restricted.

Who knows, NLTel might want to buy a support contract from Telecom
Finland, so that Alexis can do other things.

../Dave

Matti Aarnio writes:
> 	Indeed, we took this step after noticing appearance
> 	of those ORGs..   Now if somebody (hint, hint) would
> 	design a neat logo for the ZMailer.  Something as
> 	"cute" as Linux penguing.

You might want to look at <A HREF="http://xach.dorknet.com/gimp/news/">GIMP</a>
as way to generate way-cool zmailer logos.