Re: Fw: OpenVerse Visual Chat and the DustPuppy

[Barry Carlson <Barry@parasun.com>]

Hi David:

Thanks for thinking of us!  

As you will understand, we're *very* careful about allowing any use of our
characters by third parties.  We must be, in order to maintain control of
our trademarks and copyrights, plus we're keen to avoid having the Dust
Puppy associated with inappropriate folks, if you get my drift.  

That being said, if you're getting support from the Open Source community,
we're both playing in the same band, and should get to know each other
better.  From a quick look at your site, I like what I see. 

Our Web Diva, Deborah Smith, is busy doing a project plan for a major
redesign of the UF site.  I'll ask her to contact you, and have a look at
OpenVerse.  Once we understand OpenVerse better, we can figure out how we
might work together.  

Cheers,
Barry (the Chief  ;-0)

Deb:  Let's talk when you've had a chance to check it out

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cruise@openverse.org <cruise@openverse.org>
>To: illiad@userfriendly.org <illiad@userfriendly.org>
>Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 9:15 AM
>Subject: OpenVerse Visual Chat and the DustPuppy
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>  I'm the author of a new chat software called OpenVerse. The project is
>only a
>>couple of months old and already I've had incredible support for it from
>both
>>the Linux and the Windows communities. The software is being released under
>the
>>GPL software license.
>>
>>  The main draw to OpenVerse Chat is the ability to use images to represent
>>yourself. Unfortunatly, I'm not a graphics artist, I can write code till
>the
>>cows come how but when it comes to art, I could probably manage a stick
>figure
>>pretty well :)
>>
>>  The purpose of this email is to ask permission to include the Dust Puppy
>as a
>>default avatar within the distribution. Currently the only provided avatar
>is
>>the Linux Penguin we all see so often every day. I feel that inclusion of
>the
>>Dust Puppy avatar in the base will benefit both UserFriendly and OpenVerse.
>>
>>  More information on OpenVerse can be obtained from the website located at
>>http://www.openverse.org The software has been tested on various Windows
>>platforms, Linux platforms and a miryad of *NIX platforms. It will run on
>the
>>Macintosh but there are some serious issues on this platform. No one has
>>reported success or failure on BeOS.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your kind consideration
>> David Gale
>> Software
>>Author.
>>
>
>
Barry M. Carlson
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