Sound Ideas banned from filePro conference

[Fairlight]

At Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:16:47PM -0400 or thereabouts, suspect Barry
Wiseman was observed uttering:
> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>
> > Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:16:47 -0400):
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> It's not like someone can arbitrarily slap your logo on their
> >> page--it's trademarked.  Where's your facility for helping people
> >> sponsor your products, with "Powered by filePro" graphics?  Where and
> >> how are you enabling them to do the promotion you want from them?
> >
> > You mean like this page?
> >
> >      http://www.fptech.com/Company/imagelib.shtml
> >
> > [...]
>
>
> Yeah, I bet he means just like that page.  Now, how would a person
> navigate to that page from www.fptech.com/ or otherwise learn of its
> existence?

I'm wondering the exact same thing.  I plugged "fpwht150.jpg" into google
and the page comes up, suggesting it's crawlable -somewhere-.  However,
after having visited the page, I've visited all the main pages on the
fP-Tech web site (ie., main page to one layer in...all the major sections),
and nothing is marked as visited that even hints at the existance of this.
If it's there, it's buried so deep that it may as well be invisible.

My second problem:  It's not complete.  It really wants a set of "Works
with filePro" buttons as well.  I'm not asking for certification.  I'd
never get it, I'm probably a competitor to fpcgi in their eyes (I beat them
in 31 points within comparative product performance specs, and my price is
lower on Solaris and iSeries, since I have -one- price, so -I- don't even
think we're in the same league).  No, I definitely am -not- asking for
certification.

What I'm asking for is to be allowed the ability to promote both them and
myself with a "Works with filePro" image.  It's a selling point for me, it
raises their Q-factor every time it's seen.  If it were available, I'd slap
it on at least four products, since they're all used tightly with fP in
production environments.

Yet, my stuff isn't "powered by" filePro.  My stuff -powers- filePro, in
that it allows it to do things it can't natively.  So "Works with" comes
closest to symbiotic as is technically possible.  It's been used by other
applications to denote operating system support, etc.  It's not uncommon.
It's also accurate, as it isn't exclusive--my stuff works with pretty much
anything, it's just geared towards fP as an audience, despite its technical
agnosticism.

But that wording is the best possible light I can see putting it in, and
it would promote the flagship product.  The option has to exist in the
first place, however, for me to be able to promote fP accurately.

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