Inswitch being less than clear about where Erlang came from

[Joe Armstrong (AL/EAB)]

>  > > I was interested in learning more about what kind of 
> product Mr. Bello
>  > > might be developing.  I went to his company website and 
> clicked on the
>  > > menu bar link titled "Our Technology",
>  > > http://www.inswitch.us/english/technologies/.  It is 
> surprising that
>  > > this page describes Erlang/OTP but makes no mention of 
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      True - But this page makes no claim that they developed OTP
- the link to the page is "Our technology" which I guess should be liberally
interpreted as "The technology we use"


   
> the creators of
>  > > the technology.  Ericsson is mentioned as "largest user 
> of Erlang".  I
>  > > always thought that Ericsson created Erlang and OTP and 
> licenses it
>  > > with an open source license.  The Inswitch website gives me the
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>  > > impression that Erlang/OTP was created by Inswitch.  Is 
> this right?

I didn't get that impression. Bu then I'm biased  - Page 

http://www.inswitch.us/english/aboutus/company/profile/profile.htm

Says "With the foundation of IN Switch Solutions, a major software restructure was accomplished. IN Switch Licensed Erlang, (Ericsson-Language) a switch running environment developed and supported by Ericsson. "

- pretty clear to me

> 
>  > Hmm. It would be appropriate with at least a link to the
>  > www.erlang.org website.

- Yes. It's a shame the Erlang licence did not say - "any web site advertising
an Erlang product must display the Erlang logo, suitable hidden so that nobody 
can find it :-) 

But my overall reaction was "I'm pleased to discover yet another company who is
is using Erlang" rather than " here why haven't they referred to us "

Now if anybody from Inswitch is reading, we would appreciate a link to 
www.erlang.org from your main pages - This will increase our rating in
the google link weighting algorithm - oh and good luck with Erlang.

/Joe