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[Martin Geisler]

Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> On 2011-01-24 13:33, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Very strange view you folks seem to have at Aragost. But I am not
>>> surprised at all.
>>>
>>> You invite people to work on your texts for free and then want to
>>> control who publishes it and where it's published.
>> 
>> We would be happy to buy you beer in Zurich if you translate the
>> guide into German.
>
> What a silly proposal. Why should I work on the German translation of
> Aragost's homepage in return for a beer?

Because you want to contribute to the German-speaking Mercurial
community?

>> Look, the whole concept is not so strange or repulsive as you make
>> it...
>
> But you still want to be in control of what others have contributed. I
> see.

I'm not asking you to sign over copyright -- but if you like the guide
and want to expand it, then you are welcome to contribute. We will put
it on mercurial.aragost.com and there will be links back to aragost, the
links might even one day say "Get professional Mercurial support here"
or something to that effect.

>> I'm very passionate about Mercurial and aragost has allowed me to
>> write and publish these guides -- I wanted to write them because I
>> think they are useful and we (aragost) wants to have useful
>> Mercurial-related content on our website. There is no trick behind
>> this :)
>
> The trick is that you (or Aragost) want to be in control of it.
>
> But thanks for making this clear.

I think you misunderstood what I meant by "trick" -- what I meant is
that there is no trick since it is obvious to everybody.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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