Would it be wrong for me to put towers from another WISP on my website? Seems like you should sell your own dog food.
> On Aug 6, 2017, at 10:08 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > > Marketing – always a question of how far do you stretch the truth. > How many products have been announced with an artists conception or rendering > of the product as they hope it to be... > > Our community is just particularly sensitive due to the fact the almost all > of us have run lotsa CAT5 and fiber in equipment rooms. > I liked Forrest’s analogy of hotels. > > We all own hotels, and someone puts up a photo showing they have a very nice > pool, but we know the pool is not in at their hotel yet. So some of us point > that out. > > Real estate developers always have artists renderings that they use to > pre-sell. An IX could be thought of as a multi tenant dwelling. OK, so they > plan on putting dishwashers in all the units, just not done yet. > > From: Paul Stewart > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2017 5:56 AM > To: Animal Farm > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX > > I believe the issue is that the picture may not represent the actual IX in > question (or MMR of the building where the IX is located might be more > accurate). Basically, and pardon me possibly putting words in some people’s > mouthes here, when a group of people put a lot of work into something and > then a picture of that work is used elsewhere to possibly resemble where a > potential employee would work then it’s just misleading and could be > considered offensive to the people who did all the work originally ….. make > sense? > > You’ll notice my choice of words here because I’m making assumptions about > why the folks involved are upset and try to put myself in their shoes, at > which point, if I have all my facts straight, I would be quite upset as well > because it would look like someone else is taking complete credit for someone > else’s work …. In the world of IX’s (something I do know a lot about) there > is often people who don’t get pay checks as they volunteer however they get > the rewards to contributing towards a great thing for the community … if you > haven’t been involved at that level you may not understand anything I’m > suggesting here …. > > Paul > > >> On Aug 5, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Mitch Koep <af...@abwisp.com> wrote: >> >> Question?? >> >> Eric >> >> Why are you so upset? >> >> Did you have a bad dealing with someone and this is get back at them time? >> >> I agree with Faisal it's a picture >> >> Mitch >>> On 8/5/2017 11:29 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: >>> Share with you a related story.... >>> >>> I was in a Conf. room of one of our Colo Facilities Providers, they had >>> some pictures on their Conf. Room wall, which all were nice.. but there was >>> one picture that caught eye and appeared to be very familiar.. it was a >>> picture of cluster of antennas mounted on the roof of that facility... >>> >>> Upon a closer look, I recognized that that cluster was our antennas ! ... >>> so instantly two emotions came to mind... one was .. Hey that is a nice >>> picture ! I know to whom that stuff belongs to !... and the second... How >>> dare you take pictures of my equipment and hang it your conf. room (we >>> don't buy roof access from them) !... >>> >>> To me personally, the former feeling overcame the latter reaction... and I >>> actually felt proud of our little Cluster that someone viewed presentable >>> enough to put in their conf. room. >>> >>> Having said that.. if you are not the copyright owner of the photo.. then >>> why does it bother you at all ? Hopefully you should feel proud that >>> picture of an actual facility you know is being liked by others and being >>> promoted on the net... >>> >>> and that is IMHO ! >>> >>> Of course everyone is entitled to their opinions and your mileage may vary >>> !. >>> >>> :) >>> >>> Faisal Imtiaz >>> Snappy Internet & Telecom >>> 7266 SW 48 Street >>> Miami, FL 33155 >>> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 >>> >>> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net >>> >>> From: "Eric Kuhnke" mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com >>> To: af@afmug.com >>> Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 7:38:33 PM >>> Subject: [AFMUG] Matt Hoppes and Missouri IX >>> I am not the copyright owner of the photo in question. This is only a >>> request. >>> Please stop using the photo of the Westin Building 1901 fiber meet-me room >>> to advertise the Missouri IX. >>> >>> Property owners and ISPs in the Pacific Northwest have spent a great >>> deal of time, money and effort building traffic exchange infrastructure. >>> >>> In my opinion is not an accurate or factual depiction of whatever >>> facilities may currently exist in Missouri to use a photograph from a >>> carrier hotel in downtown Seattle. >>> >>> <image.png> >>> >> > >
