Agreed, to stay in business, you do need to make money somehow. And yes, installs don't happen all that often. I guess ads are fine if they're balanced and not too annoying (unlike the all too familiar x-10 popups that flash and take up most of your screen, those poor people still using 800x600 res must really dislike ads). And there are ways of blending them into a system without having them take over. I think that when people complain about ads, most times they're complaining about the ones that are a pain to get out of, or take up way too much of their desktop space. It will be interesting to see how this progresses. If mandrake can use the money to support itself better, then I say go for it. I'm sure they're aware they don't want to turn people away, so most likely they'll go about it in more of a user friendly sort of way. --- "Lansing, Dan" <Dan.Lansing at AndersenCorp.com> wrote: > Well the way I look at it, every business needs to make money somehow or > go out of business. If not enough people purchase their product, what > other choice do they have? I personally zone out half of the installs I > do anyway so I don't see this as a problem. Anyway it is only in the > install so you would only have to see the ads once.....unless like me > you need to do reinstalls 2-3 times a month... > > Dan Lansing > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Dick [mailto:joel_cd at yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:16 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Mandrake ad selling > > > Suddenly, installing the new version of Mandrake is less and less > appealling. Gotta give em credit though, they seem to have found a way > to make some money. Hopefully it'll be at least tasteful ads... Wait.. > isn't that an oxymoron? > > --- "Lansing, Dan" <Dan.Lansing at AndersenCorp.com> wrote: > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1315224&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=147&tid=163&tid=187&tid=98&tid=99 > > > > Am I the first to see this? I don't think it is as bad of a thing as > > the slashdotters...would be interested to know opinions of the LUG > > > > Dan Lansing > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list