From: Dave Winer (dave@userland.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 15:27:17 PDT
> I guess one thing this proves is that the world needs a decent opensource
bloggin'/webloggin' tool.
1. How did you conclude that? I don't get it.
2. I think there are open source "bloggin'/webloggin'" tools. I've certainly
seen the claim made. I think the software MonkeyFist uses is open source.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Brickley" <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
To: "foRK" <fork@xent.ics.uci.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: O'Reilly, again
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John Klassa wrote:
>
> >
> > >>>>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, "Dave" == Dave Winer wrote:
> >
> > Dave> This evening I learned that O'Reilly invested in Pyra, who makes
> > Dave> Blogger, which competes head-on with Manila. While we were
> > Dave> working with O'Reilly, at times very intensely, and always for
> > Dave> free, they were betting on our competitor. Needless to say this
> > Dave> should have been disclosed. I have a very sick feeling in my
> > Dave> stomach this evening, this hurts so much you can't believe. BTW,
> > Dave> O'Reilly is a much bigger company than UserLand. I feel so
> > Dave> damned used. Dave
> >
> > How much is Tim O' involved in this? From outward appearances, he seems
> > like a rather ethical guy. Maybe I'm just a bad judge of character...
> >
> > --
> > John Klassa / klassa@mail.com
> >
> >
> >
>
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