I think the REVENUE SHARING idea is fine if: 1) We make clear to DDG they have to continue to meet our privacy & freedom goals
2) We disclose on the Wiki the arrangement. CER On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 05:39:22PM -0700, Andr?? Silva wrote: > Hi parabolers, I received a email from duckduckgo by Prakash Swaminathan > because they want to know if it could be included on our browsers. I > answered that we have included duckduckgo as main search engine on our > browsers. So, they proposed 2 things for us. I would to put those mails to > parabola mail list to that we decide in community. > > Here are the following messages: > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:18:18 +0530 > From: Prakash Swaminathan <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > Andr?, > > At DuckDuckGo, we believe that?privacy?and better search are not mutually > exclusive. > > We are available in Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Opera and can offer your > users a compelling alternative search option. > > What is the process to add DuckDuckGo to Parabola? > > Kind regards, > Prakash > -- > > Prakash Swaminathan, ?https://duckduckgo.com/ > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:19:31 -0200 > From: Andr? Silva <[email protected]> > To: Prakash Swaminathan <[email protected]> > > Prakash, > > At Parabola, DuckDuckGo is our main search engine, eg: duckduckgo was > included in about:home and search bar in iceweasel-libre and icecat. Others > browsers as Konqueror-libre contains DuckDuckGo as search engine option on > our distro [0]. > Other search engines as Google, Yahoo and Bing were removed in our distro, > due that they doesn't respect our privacy. > We put those modifications in a patch [1] [2] and was created a package > called mozilla-searchplugins, that includes DuckDuckGo in our plugins list > for Mozilla based browsers [3]. > We believe and advocate the freedom and privacy in the computing and in this > case DuckDuckGo, Seeks and YaCy are the best search engines for our distro. > > Regards, > Andr? Fabian Silva Delgado > > [0] > https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/kdebase-runtime-libre/duckduckgo_lite.desktop > [1] > https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/iceweasel-libre/libre.patch > [2] > https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/icecat/libre.patch > [3] > https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/mozilla-searchplugins/duck-duck-go-lite.xml > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:36:47 +0530 > From: Prakash Swaminathan <[email protected]> > To: Andr? Silva <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > > Andr?, > > Thanks! ?Delighted to hear that we are the default search engine in > Parabola. > > We offer revenue-share in two ways: > > - If DuckDuckGo is the default search engine we split revenue 50-50% > > - If DuckDuckGo is an option among other search engines, we would split 25%? > > Would this be of interest to you? > > Kind regards, > > Prakash > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:22:05 -0200 > From: Andr? Silva <[email protected]> > To: Prakash Swaminathan <[email protected]> > > Prakash, > > I'm very grateful by the offer that you are sending for Parabola by my > intermediation, but our distro was created by a small community of > hackers, and i think that the best way is send your offer to our mail. I > give to you the following email to that you can communicate to us: > > [email protected] > > Waiting your response soon, kind regards: > Andr? Fabian Silva Delgado > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Charles Roth Cultural Detective & Curious Antiquary Primary email: [email protected] XMPP/Jabber/GTalk: cer@parlementum Micro: @encycl About: http://encyclomundi.org/wiki/User:Encyclom
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