Re: O'Reilly, again

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From: Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 14:51:18 PDT


I guess one thing this proves is that the world needs a decent
opensource bloggin'/webloggin' tool. Naively..., --danbri

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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