Em Ter, 2004-12-14 às 00:59, Stephen Frost escreveu: > I agree w/ tbm, I don't see the issues as all that problematic. I find > it disappointing, but not exactly suprising, that alot of the project > members disagree outright at the very notion. Not very open-minded, in > my view. :)
I agree. In some messages in this thread it was said that if Debian starts to put google ads the Debian Organization won't be not-for-profit anymore. I just want to make it clear. Not-for-profit doesn't mean Without-any-money. A non-profit organization can have several ways of getting money to raise its projects. I think it's completely acceptable that Debian rents a space on its webpage as a way of getting money to raise its projects, this doesn't mean profit. Economically-speaking, profit is what some company have as a positive result of a period. In for-profit organizations, this profit is generally distributed among the share-holders. In a non-profit organization, the profit is called "leftovers" (I don't know if this is the correct word in english, in portuguese is "superavit") which is never distributed among share-holders (which actually don't exist), but it's reinvested into the organization. I hope this help getting some things clear... daniel