From: Cengizhan Kaptan (kaptan@kablonet.com.tr)
Date: Fri 12 Sep 2003 - 17:08:36 EDT
Selamlar,
Mandrake'nin reklam ile ilgili aciklamasi:
A controversy has erupted today in the Linux community about the
upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.2 and advertizing. Although the overall
reaction from the community is mostly positive, a few people don't seem
to be happy about having advertizing in Mandrake 9.2.
We'd like to explain briefly why we have done this and why you shouldn't
worry.
0) There won't be any ad in the screensavers in Mandrake 9.2
There will be one paid-ad in the installation procedure, and a few
paid-links in bookmarks.
1) Ads are selected and won't be intrusive.
Our advertizing plan is only offered to MandrakeSoft partners - we
select only ads that make sense as complementary Linux solutions.
Additionally, ads won't be intrusive (no pop-up windows) and can be
removed easily.
2) There have been ads in Mandrake Linux for years.
Maybe you didn't notice it, but in the installation procedure and in
browser's bookmarks, there have been many links to Mandrake products,
the GNU project, many Open Source projects and so on. In Mandrake 9.1
there was the first "commercial" link to a technical book content
provider. Nobody was annoyed, we didn't get any feedback about that.
3) Free Software and business model.
As we are firmly committed to Open Source/Free Software, we want to keep
on exploring business models that are compatible with this spirit.
Saygilar,
Cengizhan Kaptan
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