On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Jan Høydahl / Cominvent wrote: > On 12. jan. 2010, at 16.27, Marvin Humphrey wrote: >> I think it's good to link to outside publications, and it doesn't seem like a >> problem to me that it's a related product. News snippets linking to magazine >> articles (especially positive reviews early on) are common fare on project >> webpages. > > I'm positive to pointing to commercial stuff from the site and wiki, that's > gonna benefit the overall Lucene community. > > But why front page, and why as an "ad" with an image? A more neutral, still > prominent placement would be on a new "Commercial" page linked to from the > left > menu. Although it's an excellent ref.guide, it clearly is a marketing > instrument > for Lucid, one out of a growing number of competitors in this field. There > will > be a growing need for more references to other commercial distros, plugins, > documentation and more, and such stuff should have a vendor neutral home. > > +1 for a text link from a new "Commercial" page. > > -1 for image ad on front page -- (unless the ad is paid and tagged as an ad)
Please note Apache has specific rules on commercial stuff. Books are one thing, but "commercial" page is a different story.
