On Jul 1, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:

> On 1 July 2011 14:26, Stefane Fermigier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>> c) In the proposal document, which you presumably helped draw up,
>>> there is a section on "Known Risks". One of the sub-sections is "An
>>> Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand". In this section the
>>> Stanbol proposal says "The brand is not what makes the difference for
>>> the IKS team, the motivation is the opportunity to build and grow a
>>> community." If the brand is not important then a "nofollow" link is
>>> not an issue, you are free to write anything you like that conforms to
>>> the trademark rules, on your own website.
>> 
>> We're not talking about the Apache Brand here. We're talking about PageRank. 
>> Completely different thing.
> 
> What do you think makes a link from the ASF site valuable?

PageRank and branding, but when debating about rel=nofollow, we're talking 
about PageRank, not branding.

  S.

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