An Idea: A bit more support

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sat Dec 22 00:32:09 UTC 2001


Tansel --

We (SqC) have no plans to sell CDs.

Keep up the great work at Squeak News!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 7:00 PM -0500 12/21/01, Editor - Squeak News wrote:
>Hi Marcus, Stef, and everybody,
>
>
>>  Hi!
>>
>>  > Then as a university we could buy this cd to support Squeak community.
>>  >
>>  > Tell me what you think.
>
>We can attest to Stef's generosity: he was among the very first to support
>us.
>
>>  It would be a good thing to have such a CD. I imagine this to look very
>>  much like a Squeak-News CD, but with more contents, it should include
>>  everything from introduction articles to technical stuff.
>>  Just the kind of CD you would like to give to your friends or hand
>>  out at a conference.
>
>This was very much in line with our plans for the Dec-January issue. BTW you
>can give copies of Squeak News to your friends or hand them out at a
>conference without problems because Squeak News license allows you to give
>away copies as long as the reason is introduction, evaluation, promotion and
>helping further development of Squeak, or for educational or self
>development purposes.
>
>>  This is not much different from what Tansel wants to do in the double
>>  issue of SqueakNews...
>
>Quite right. Squeak News is a very suitable medium for such distribution,
>because we already include the VMs for every platform we can find, as one of
>our goals is to make Squeak News to work seamlessly on (almost) every known
>platform.(except CE as Squeak News has no hope of working on a CE
>environment unless it goes on a strict diet.)  Also our CDs are hybrid
>format and can be read in most popular platforms even hiding certain
>platform-specific details from other platforms.
>We have received numerous requests to include the latest Squeak
>distributions with our issues. However I was reluctant to include latest
>virgin images regularly with Squeak News because I am not sure if Squeak
>Central or Squeak Foundation have any plans to sell Squeak CDs, and our move
>could have preempted such an avenue of income for these organizations.
>One thing we can do though we can include  latest distributions of Squeak in
>the Squeak News CDs until such time a Squeak Foundation would like to sell
>Squeak on a CD.
>
>I am sure there won't be a problem to include a full 3.2 distribution image
>in the December-January issue. The only thing is, I guess Stef wants to
>support others as well ;)
>
>>       Marcus
>>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tansel Ersavas
>Editor, Squeak News
>http://www.squeaknews.com


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