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LI Vendor Assistance Program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Apr 17 07:36:02 1995
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 19:53:02 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: "David C. Niemi" <niemidc@clark.net>
Subject: LI Vendor Assistance Program
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: Linux International, vendors, assistance
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Linux International is pleased to announce that it has started a
Vendor Assistance Program (VAP) to aid commercial software vendors
who wish to port their wares to Linux.
Purpose
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To facilitate porting of high-quality commercial software to Linux.
Our goal is not "Linux advocacy", but rather to help software vendors
by providing porting assistance and a straightforward, realistic
assessment of the Linux market.
Status
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For now, this is a low-key program. We have no budget and we are
just starting out with our first few vendors; so we are primarily
planning to function as a clearinghouse for information and people,
so that we can connect software vendors with the help they need to
produce and market a successful Linux product.
Who should contact us
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1) Software Vendors/Developers/Resellers
If you have a product you'd like to port to Linux, let us know.
At present we can connect you with other Linux resources, give
you advice about the (emerging) Linux marketplace, and provide
technical porting help via Internet e-mail. If you need a higher
level of help than this, let us know what you are looking for and
we'll see what we can do. The VAP group is small, and we keep
vendor information confidential.
Preferred contact method for vendors:
Internet e-mail to <vap@li.org>
Postal address:
LI VAP
c/o David Niemi
2364 Old Trail Drive
Reston, Virginia 22091
USA
2) Volunteers
If you are interested in volunteering to help and advise vendors and
have significant experience porting major software packages to Linux
and other UNIX variants, please let us know. Useful technical areas
include makefiles, imake, and gcc; and typical include file, library
conflicts, svgalib, and DOS-to-Linux and MS Windows-to-X-Windows issues.
Legal and marketing expertise relating to software is also appreciated.
The contact point for volunteers is:
Internet e-mail to <vap-help@li.org>
About Linux International
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Linux International is a not-for-profit organisation whose goal is
to promote Linux. Further information on Linux International can be
obtained via
email: li-info@li.org
www: http://www.li.org/linux-int/
snail: Linux International
PO Box 80,
Hamilton Hill, WA
Australia, 6163
========== David C. Niemi ========== Reston, Virginia, USA ==========
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy the shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
Sir Richard Burton, The Kasidah
--------- niemidc@clark.net ---------- David.Niemi@li.org -----------
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