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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:22:05 +0000

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By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:21:49 +0000

Thanks Adam!

Clarification always helps. I am jazzed that your concept is so timely and so well received.

I like the community approach to supporting projects in whatever way we all can.

I’ll have to postpone an interview but I would really like to do one with you about FM. I just have so much stuff going on I haven’t been able to even update my blog for the past two weeks, but I will grab that email!

- C

By: adam

adam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:45:06 +0000

You are welcome to make money using FLOSS Manuals. We are there to promote the uptake of free software and if you make money doing that with us, then great.

However we won’t host manuals on proprietary software in FM.

Very nice comments on FM. I’m happy to talk more about it, my email is on the FM about page.

adam

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Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:52:31 +0000

[...] Soltys wrote about Floss and linked to numerous other writers, including Charles Jeter and Janet Swisher. We also talked about Flossmanuals.net briefly on the last [...]

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:07:20 +0000

My thoughts exactly, Janet. Your article was wonderful to review. Thanks for the insight into FLOSSManuals.net. I recently had a podcast with Tom Johnson where we spoke about FLOSS as well as several other topics. As I see it, FLOSSManuals.net is the open-source equivalent of Surfrider - you can show up, clean up the beach as a volunteer, and everyone benefits. How cool is that? Anne Gentle also talks about the results of her FLOSSManuals.net experience.

By: Janet Swisher

Janet Swisher — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:29:33 +0000

Hi Charles,

Thanks for quoting me.

My impression is that profiting from FLOSS Manuals is OK with them — such as selling books with a markup — but that using the site to create docs for proprietary software would raise eyebrows.

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