Michael Cardenas wrote: > I'm working on the limewire deb package, and the developer has asked > me to do something that I'm sure users are not going to want. > > Limewire displays small banner ads in the bottom of the application > window, and there's a boolean which turns this on. When you get the > code from cvs, it's off, but when they make a release, they turn it > on. > > The developer at limewire that I spoke to asked me to turn them on, so > I guess that I should, although that's not what users are going to > want. > > Any thoughts on this?
If it's not already configurable in a config file, it should perhaps be. There is clearly an issue of balance here between relations with upstream authors and the desires and requests of users. As a user I would certianly file a bug on any piece of software in debian that I use that displays any form of advertising, asking that the advertising be turned off. I would probably be satisfied with a note in README.Debian about a config file option to disable it though. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
