Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Curtis Olson: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Detlef Faber <fa...@sol2500.net> > wrote: > The german section of Openoffice.org contains such a warning > too. I > would really appreciate this. And we could stop the > advertising of this > product on the FlightGear site. > > I can look into it, but I'll say this purely from a > humorous/hypothetical perspective: if anyone understands how adsense > work, any time one of us clicks on his ad, it costs him money, but > google has very sophisticated filters to catch this any many other > kinds of abuse so a single person can't do much on that front. > Adsense offers the option to list websites of competitors that shall not appear on the own site.
> I can't bring myself to be this sleazy and it wouldn't reflect > positively on the flightgear project (but it's fun to think about) :-) > so what if I could add some text that says: if the ad in this box is > from xyz.com, click on it as many times as possible, email all your > contacts to also click on it, but make sure you don't buy anything. I > shouldn't even think things like that, let alone post them ... ! > This would clearly be a violation of Googles AdSense Rules. But I guess a note to Users of FlightProsim to let them know their rights (e.g to legally give a copy of this product to everyone who might want one) or spread where to get new versions for free would be perfectly legal. Greetings > Curt. > > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Detlef Faber http://www.sol2500.net/flightgear ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
