On Sun, April 22, 2012 12:52 pm, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > On 04/22/2012 05:13 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> Do other people here have any strong opinions on the usefulness of >> advertising in the Linux Audio community? >> > > Yes. I completely adhere to Robin's stance. > You do realise that many of the tools being produced by the Linux Audio Community are being used in the advertising industry which makes us all complicit in supporting it to start with. IMO we cannot avoid that fact that advertising and marketing is a very crucial component to global industry which enables the corporate world to continue to function. We should seek to manage our own channel and therefore the message and brand rather than avoid it all together out of some ridiculous fear of becoming Evil. We may even make enough money in the process to pay some of our community members and help them to be productive and motivated. If we continue to avoid the whole issue that is exactly what the "Evil" marketing companies and corporations would like for us to do so that they can have complete control over the message, brand, content and income stream... -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
