Hi all, Reading Jonathan Schwartz' blog I am concerned about plans to include advertisements in the Sun-built binaries.
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_value_of_distribution_java I expect many users turning away from OpenOffice.org if they are confronted with commercial messages when they "print those documents, fax them, copy them, project them". In the best case they will turn to non-adware builds such as the one by Novell - I wonder if that is what Sun wants. I think if Sun wants to generate some revenue from their investments in OpenOffice.org then they should make more work of offering professional support. Also I would not be opposed to finding businesses wanting to sponsor OpenOffice.org. They could then be mentioned on the OpenOffice.org website, and in the about screen and the splash screen of the binary (but not throughout the software) and be allowed to present themselves as OpenOffice.org sponsors in their own websites and publications (this would actually amount to publicity for OpenOffice.org ;)) Being sponsored and publicizing it is somehow different than getting paid for advertisements. What do you guys think? -- Vriendelijke groet, Simon Brouwer -*- nl.openoffice.org -*- http://www.opentaal.org -*- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
