“Dave Responds Re: Supporting Radio”

Dave Winer saw my comments on supporting Radio, and responded on his own site (the numbers are mine):

[1] We're selling into corporations, government and education through consultants and VARs, they support their installations. [2] Our core users will be like the hobbyists from the early days of personal computing who launched companies like Apple and Microsoft (and Borland, Lotus, Software Publishing, Symantec, etc). [3] Enthusiastic supporters of the technology who want to see us gain traction and keep improving the software.

He didn't really answer my concerns, but it's still worth responding to.

1. I'm a Frontier consultant and software developer (duh), but I didn't know that. It's stated in the present tense, "we're selling ... through consultants and VAR's". Does this mean I've been left out, or is this still being planned? (I'm guessing the latter.)

2. Wow, he's thinking big. ;-)

3. I count myself in this group.

Some friends have written to express some sort of "condolences" over how hard it must be to watch Radio get all this attention (because of Conversant). Not so! Radio and Conversant are not even on the same planet, let alone the same market space. As I've said before, I like Radio, I use Radio, and I'll even recommend Radio. In fact, we (myself, and others from the past-and-present Macrobyte team) are discussing the possibility of making them work together on a deeper level than one might expect. ;-)