Ads on amarok.kde.org - a new perspective

[Pierre-Luc Auclair]

I personally don't care as long as:

1. The deals you make don't force Amarok in any way, or prevent it from going 
in any direction.

2. They are unintrusive.

3. They serve Amarok, not the opposite.

But I do *really* care if these ads end up *inside* Amarok, in a way that they 
hinder the user experience. Of course none of us want ad-ware ;)

My 2 cents

Pierre-Luc

Le mardi, 24 mars 2009 02:43:46, Mark Kretschmann a écrit :
> Ahoy,
>
> just wanted to let you know something that surprised me personally quite a
> bit:
>
> We had always been taking for granted (due to some old information)
> that advertisements are not allowed on KDE domains. After talking to
> Sebas the other day, it turned out that this isn't entirely true -
> there is in fact no such formal rule. It's just that KDE wouldn't like
> to see a page plastered with ads for dubious products (which I
> wouldn't want either).
>
> However, nothing is stopping us from e.g. putting an ad for Magnatune
> on the page, or ads for other companies that sponsor us (or which are
> somehow "friends" of us, e.g. like Last.fm). And I think this puts
> things into a very different perspective. If we should actually make
> use of this option is debatable, but I think it's interesting to know
> that we have this option :)
>
> I personally wouldn't have a problem with e.g. listing some sponsors
> or befriended companies, especially not if that could generate us some
> bucks.