You seem pretty sure that the company was guilty.
However, I always believe that 'innocent until proven guilty'.
Also, about TOI. I believe that this is their practice. And they are open and blatant about it.
More importantly, a general Q:
Why do we expect our newspapers to support their competition?? and why do we deem it unethical if they refuse to promote competition?
Is being a newspaper any different from being a magazine, a tv show, or for that matter a website? We would not expect the rest to carry stories about their competition. Why be mortified if a newspaper says that they don't want to print your story because they don't like your face?
Anybody?
I believe that being a private enterprise they should have all the right to what they like. (ALSO, the GOVT should abolish all subsidies to them, just because they are newspapers, or alternatively extend this to all kinds of media. (the internet especially ;-))
-V
PS: Thanx for the website. Even though I am not any wiser than before. Can I say that the site was content-free? would you agree?
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[mailto:linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of Manish Jethani
Sometime yesterday, Vaibhav Arya wrote:
There is a lot of misunderstanding in the media about technology, and [snip] despite the companies best attempt to represent itself truthfully.
So you really think companies try to represent themselves truthfully? I don't think so. Not even the open source guys (I've had bad experiences here too).
(I believe that there is a very short gap between the company proclaiming that it is the first _commercial_ interconnect service, and the news paper printing that the company is the first service.
I don't know about other instances, but in this one both the company and the newspaper are equally guilty. They're both there to make money out of it.
And also the company saying that we interoperate with all _commercially important_ protocols and someone writing all protocols.)
Ya right. But you see the marketing guys are going to leave the ``commercially important'' out.
What is more surprising is that there is no information about this company anywhere on the net. That's a bit shady wouldn't you say. For an internet products company that too?
Shady indeed. My reason no. 210 for parting ways. ;-)
I have tried all the major search engines, (and after reading the LUG) even been thru most of India times. But no info. Does anyone know if this company has a website, or if this company allows free (trial?) downloads of its software?
The company web site -- http://www.geodesic.org/ (or maybe this will work) -- http://geodesic.org/
The project web site -- http://www.mundu.com/ (note, there's no info about the messenger)
My page on the site ;-) -- http://www.mundu.com/manish/ (outdated, don't rely on the contact info)
As you can see, they haven't even deleted my page from there. And yes, there's no info on the web about the co. because it has preferred to be in stealth mode.
Manish