On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 04:10:55PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, April 22, 2012 04:02:05 PM S. Massy did opine: > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:28:34AM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > > > I'm not a member of the management-board; but my recommended reply to > > > potential commercial businesses would be: "We don't want your money, > > > we want your support, your cooperation and compliance. - We're happy > > > to link to your site if it offers useful information, specs, software > > > or supports linuxaudio - but we won't sell links." > > > > I join in with the chorus in agreeing here. I don't think advertising is > > particularly evil, but I do *not* think it belongs on the community > > centre corkboard. > > > > Another point is, if a company is Linux-friendly, it shouldn't have to > > pay to be listed, it should pretty much be automatic. > > Unforch, that doesn't pay the bills to run the server if its not 100% > donated. My understanding is that it is, in this case. > > > If we want random > > "spots" on linuxaudio.org, why not compile a roster of friendly > > companies, useful projects and websites and display one randomly on > > every page load? > > I would modify that by making the link to that list quite visible, but the > random display would be chosen to only show those companies or vendors who > have actually purchased a ticket to the show by actually supporting the > site with either money or materials. Which would mean that a vendor with minimal Linux compatibility but money would get more visibility than a potentially more involved (say with GPL drivers), smaller vendor or a free software project (like Ardour, for instance). This could easily mislead newcomers to the Linux Audio world and IMHO should at the very least be counter-balanced by a community-based "pick of the month" or some such initiative with equal or greater visibility. Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
