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Topic: Another Damn Small??, Taking from Distrowatch: Damn Small BSD

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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,09:23

I will put in one more two cents worth, and it might only be worth that two cents.

In my experience, crosslinking. Take the high road. Tell your compitition 'If you link to me i will link to you". When the consumer is given multiple options, it causes healthy compitition. The end user will choose which product is most useful to them and it will prosper. The inferior products will dissapear into obscurity.

I have a very specific instance that may or may not apply to this. I started a web-site for a rural community that relied on tourism for a large part of it's income. A large part of this site was photos I took on my digital camera. As I understand it, I have substantial rights to these photos even if i do not place a copyright notice on them. I did place copyright notices on the pages they were presented on. without my knowlege, another person started a website proomoting tourism in the same community. He took my original photos from my site to start his site with out even telling me untill a month later. He then called me up and said 'I hope you don't mind that I used your photos'. Do you, at his point, see where i could have, very reasonably, pursued my ip rights, have taken him for everyting he owed, will ever own, and any future income? Instead, we came to an agreement,in less then 5 minutes, the photos he used would bear my copyright and link to my site and we would cross-link on our homepages. And the supperior product prevailed. Even though he stole my intelecual property,I always came out higher in search engine rankngs and traffic.

This might or might not apply to the situation at hand. Its my 2 cents worth.

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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,15:33

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Take the high road. Tell your compitition 'If you link to me i will link to you". When the consumer is given multiple options, it causes healthy compitition

At this point, that would benefit the interloping project at the expense of the trademarked project. These guys are still tripping over themselves trying to get their "pilot" working -- why link to something that doesn't even work?

No, you *might* do that for an equivalent but dissimilar project that parallels your own, but not for hobbyists who are (a) stealing your name and (b) using your concept. We've already given them more than their obligatory fifteen minutes. Let them choose their own unique name and get a working concept before we give them any creditability or legitimacy. They've already chosen to piggyback on the goodwill DSL has established by stealing the Damn Small name and using a nearly identical concept. DSL owes thieves nothing.

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roberts

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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,16:01

I also find it curious that Distrowatch gave them an announcment, which started this thread. Yet Distrowatch has not posted an announcement of the last several releases of DSL. Perhaps it is more important to announce features than to actually have them.

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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,16:05

Perhaps DSL evolves too quickly for the folks at Distrowatch? For DSL there might be a new release every two weeks, with biggies like Ubuntu it's six months..

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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,16:37

Actually, I have received hate mail (not from Distrowatch) that DSL should not be listed as it has a 2.4 kernel. Apparently, they felt that unless you are updating the kernel, libs, and all that latest apps, you don't deserve the spot that you are currently occupying. It is just interesting that the two events were timed so closely.

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