Bad idea...bad bad!
I would flee screaming
audio ads while booting up?
ads to annoy admins while installing computers (bad
target audience)
the problem now is that people are not paying much for
ads right now (mostly because they seem to think that
ads are only effective if clicked though...as opposed
to the ads on tv or magazines which build brand
identity)
This means less revenue...more annoyance. The last
thing we want to see is open source = urban sprawl....
you know those cities dedicated to ugly strip malls
and signs out the wazoo... it would be enough to run
back to MS.
--- Blue Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once upon a time I spewed out about 32 million ideas
> to chmou and warly
> about features for 80 81. I was on a whole lotta
> caffeine and about 12
> days of coding. Included were ideas for sponsored
> ads in various places
> where it would cost mandrake nothing. For instance,
> those useless
> self-advertisements in the installer could be
> replaced with commercials
> where users could 'click to receive more information
> when the install is
> finished'. And upon completion of install, either
> in program but from
> hd or on first boot a message, website, demo,
> whatever would pop up
> (preceded by one of pixels famous dialogues that
> would list the clicked
> ads and allow the user to choose what to view, how
> to view it, whatever
> so they didn't get pissed when the booted up and a
> million ads appear
> out of nowhere that they don't remember). Such as
> (after main install
> completes and the ads are done) a box like for
> startup services that has
> ad names listed and a user clicks the star/checkbox
> for one to 'view
> add' 'get more info' or 'wait until I boot!'. If a
> recommended install
> for development, server, or workstation or whatever
> was chosen, adds
> could be based on that. Such as a user clicks the
> development class and
> ads for osdn or Rational products turn up. Or base
> on package selection
> such as if someone selected devel package group or
> even more specific
> "You have chosen to install xxx package. You may
> also be interested in:
> {and show an ad for related product}"
> Other places..there is always the website...and u
> could do demo products
> in distribution of non-open source like say "<mdk>
> Hey Corel, give us a
> little dough and we'll include your freeware version
> of wordperfect in
> our distrib. assuming it's legal.
> <corel> Well, sounds good, we pay
> you $x.yz per copy
> sold. After all, you have no way of measuring
> network or hd installs."
> For lin4win installs you could try to get M$ to
> advertise 'reasons to
> stick with windows' just for the hell of it. If you
> that desperate for
> cash or would you ever be?
> Big money maker if only for one company at a time:
> Default desktop
> image not from mandrake but from someone who paid a
> whole lot to put
> their ad there. After all, on the first boot at the
> very least the
> would be forced to see it and read it and it would
> stick with 'em well.
> Not to mention total dumbasses that won't go to the
> trouble to change
> the image will get it ingrained in their minds
> because they see it on
> every graphical boot. Best yet, AURORA! That one
> just occured to me.
> Forget the mdk logo and make an ad or ad set there.
> Heck, it could
> even automatically update from a list of adds on the
> cooker mirrors
> every now and then so the ads would change and so
> would money sources.
> BTW it doesn't always have to be visual, instead of
> anoying special
> effects sounds on boot have rotating audio ads for
> either actual boot
> or login to graphical and gnome/kde that play boot
> sounds would have
> script (maybe where it says building window manager
> sessions it would
> run) that rotate audio ads.
> I gotta galla now but would love to see mandrake
> pull in some cash
> without resorting to proprietary code :). Also,
> more thoroughly
> advertise the non-open soft that comes in the
> power/deluxe/server packs
> so people know they're paying extra for something
> other than blemish.
>
>
>
>
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