Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonas Häggqvist wrote: This is absolutely one of the things I hate most about ads. Could we please add a huge ADS BELOW! WATCH OUT! sign above them or something? I understand that you may not like ads, but it's not like they are life threatening. Don't you think you are overreacting a bit

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: This is absolutely one of the things I hate most about ads. The ads are only present on the site because we think the amount of money they bring is far from insignificant and thus they will help us improve Rockbox and Rockbox-related events. If

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread pondlife
So, I really really cannot agree with these ads being evil by any means. I don't think rasher was saying that the ads themselves were evil, just the lack of signposting that they *were* ads. pondlife

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Peter D'Hoye
I don't think rasher was saying that the ads themselves were evil, just the lack of signposting that they *were* ads. IMHO, if you do not see that the box with links are ads, good luck installing rockbox. I mean, it is sooo obvious that I really wonder what the problem is. To be honest, I

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Louden
I mean, it is sooo obvious that I really wonder what the problem is. To be honest, I have discovered one of the links to be usefull ;) That being said, a few people have asked about them in IRC already. I think small text above the box saying Advertising: wouldn't go awry, perhaps with the

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathan Gordon
On 17/04/2008, Paul Louden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, it is sooo obvious that I really wonder what the problem is. To be honest, I have discovered one of the links to be usefull ;) That being said, a few people have asked about them in IRC already. I think small text above the

Re: Devcon in Sweden again?

2008-04-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Daniel Stenberg wrote: 28-29th of June Seeing we have no other alternatives presented, I would like to suggest we gather for devcon in Stockholm Sweden this specific weekend. If nobody objects violently within shortly, I'll just double-check that we can use the

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Alex Zajac
True, people might think rockbox is affiliated with some of the companies. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Jonathan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/04/2008, Paul Louden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, it is sooo obvious that I really wonder what the problem is. To be honest, I

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Louden
You might not be aware of this, but you're quoting the full previous message with your responses. As per the list guidelines, you should not be top posting, and should you choose to quote you should be doing so only with contextual quotes.

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Alex Zajac
Thanks. I forgot that my email automatically does that. Another question: how do taxes work into this? I don't wanna see rockbox in trouble because of a tax mishap.

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Austin Appel
Alex Zajac wrote: Another question: how do taxes work into this? I don't wanna see rockbox in trouble because of a tax mishap. Don't worry about it. Rockbox isn't a financial entity...