Re: Google ads on debian.org
Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Alexander Schmehl (alexander@schmehl.info) wrote:
> > * martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [041213 18:14]:
> > > more money is always good.
> >
> > AFAIK Debian has more money, than we can (usefully) spend (at our
> > current rate). I think that was pointed out just a feek weeks ago in
> > the "donate for e-Mail account" discussion.
> >
> > I startet to use Debian, because it was not commercial, it was entire
> > free, and I'm afraid, this will be the first step in the wrong
> > direction. It will lower our principles, and it will become precedent
> > case for our future doing.
>
> This gloom-and-doom prediction is really getting old. No, it wouldn't
> become a precedent, no, it wouldn't lower our principles, no, it's not a
> step towards making Debian no longer free. It's a couple ads on our web
> page to bring in a (probably small) revenue stream. There are a number
> of other open source and free software websites which do this, it's not
> anything new and it certainly doesn't make you look like a commercial
> website, if anything it makes you look like *less* commercial.
I'm interested in the rationales basing your assertions.
Regards,
Joey
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