On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, RalfGesellensetter wrote:
today, I "enhanced" http://tjener on our installation by two promotional
buttons/banners for Openoffice.org and Firefox. This induced some
considerations if we should do similar cross project support
- on our default pages in /var/www
- on our web portal(s)?
I'm reserved if it concerns promotional buttons. What is the real
effect? People who visit Debian-Edu (or Free Software sites in
general) will mostly know about OO and Firefox. If they have choosen
a different office solution / browser they did it intentionally and
will not change anything because they see a button on a Debian-Edu
web site. So what is the effect of such a button?
- Helping OO or Firefox project? Probably not.
- Helping Debian-Edu? Probably not.
- Wasting bandwidth with unnecessary images? Probably.
- Bluring a web page with just another image? Probably.
If you ask me it is a superfluous flavour of adopting advertising
habits of commercial world.
Kind regards
Andreas.