On 07/02/2015 09:47, Lara wrote: > grarpamp: >>> So Facebook is not that evil after all. >> But on balance, merely a political photo op. > I forgot The Church of Scare has deemed Facebook the work of the Devil. > My bad for the blasphemy. Bit of both, I suspect.
Facebook are never going to do anything to threaten their core business, which is selling their "user base" to advertisers; gnupg is certainly no threat to that. Almost certainly, the 50K will be coming out of the marketing/publicity budget, and could well be quietly forgotten when the next payment date rolls around if they don't seem to be getting sufficient kudos for the support for their money. However, on that scale? 50K won't buy you a 30s advertising slot on most big national networks, even at less popular times of day; if Facebook get the equivalent marketing benefit of one ad's worth of attention from it, then it was cheap at the price for them. I would much rather the gnupg project got the cash than (say) the Fox news network, and if all it takes is for enough people to mention (preferably *on* Facebook) the payment in positive terms, for Facebook to see gnupg (and possibly even Tor or other valuable projects) as a good place to spend their marketing dollars, than I can't see any reason NOT to give them a public backpatting for it. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
