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Hello,
Vincent Danen wrote: | I hate to say it, but it cracks me up how people are so against advertising, | our business model, and things we do to make revenue so that the developers | and others in the company can eat and afford to spend all of their time | working on the distro. Sounds like the community would rather have a nice | distribution but all the developers should be homeless and starving.
I think, that this is just not true and most people here will agree. There are plenty of ways how to make money out of the product without resorting to ads. E.g. selling support, selling special "enterprise" versions (e.g. RedHat is doing this) or making the distro semi-commercial (aka Suse).
I do not think, that there is a problem with making money out of the product. Most people here are Club members or bought their boxes.
Problem is, that :
a) this alienates the users - I do not know anybody who is fond of ads, most users hate them. Yes, you could remove them, but I do not think that the user will come back if the first thing he sees is an ad for some unrelated product. Especially the default screensaver decision is bad :-(
b) nobody even bothered to say something to people in Cooker. There are plenty of people there, who are spending lots of time working on Cooker without any remuneration. People here are not even worth a mail from MDK saying something like "oh, btw, there will be ads in the upcoming version, what do you think?", it seems. Somebody had to notice this on an obscure web page and also Slashdot picked it up before somebody from MDK bothered to say something.
| (And no, I won't bother contributing to this thread anymore)
Me neither, had enough already. But it also shows, that Mandrakesoft does not care much what their developers and users think. Nice :-(
Regards,
Jan
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