On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Recently I wrote an email to Theo about this idea I had to help fund > OpenBSD. I never got a reply back, so either he found it very stupid > and refrained himself from flaming me (that's probably not it) or > something else happened. > > Anyways the point is I taught (and still think) it's a good idea, so > I'd like to know what people on the list think about it. > > My idea is the following: The mozilla foundation now makes a boat > load of money by shipping firefox with a default search page set to > google > (http://www.google.ca/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official > for my installed version). Mozilla simply gets a percentage of the ad > money generated by the searches that originate from that page. > > Since google seem reasonably friendly to OpenBSD (I remember a large > donation from google) wouldn't it be possible to have an > OpenBSD-google search page where part of the profits generated are > given to OpenBSD? > > The way I see it it's 'free' money for the project in the sense that > it doesn't cost the devs OR the users anything. > > Am I the only one who would use such a page (and force it on every > other computer in thehouse :) )? > > Feel free to flame me if you think it's a ridiculous idea...but I > still think it's a damn good idea...
Or we could, you know, not be total assholes. See http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&mode=expanded&sid=20060404004219 for details. Joachim
