Dear all, visiting the GNOME website, I saw “Sponsor GNOME by making your Amazon purchases at the GNOME Amazon Store”.
A very similar initiative by a member of the Debian Med project caused our blog to be removed from Planet Debian last year (http://lists.debian.org/87bovhz00v....@gkar.ganneff.de). However, I do not see much difference between inviting people to shop in a site that will share its profit with a Debian team, and inviting our users to search the web using an engine that will share its profit with Debian. In the second case, there are more procedures that guarantee that the money will be spent as promised, but in both cases, the goal is the development of Debian. To me, it is hard to guess where to draw the line between what is acceptable and what is unacceptable regarding revenue sharing agreements and their advertisement. I hope that the decision that will be taken about DuckDuckGo's proposition will be accompanied by a clarification on what we can generalise from it. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120331091538.ga26...@falafel.plessy.net
