[Consortium] Advertising Policy - linuxaudio.org

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Sun, April 22, 2012 12:09 am, Robin Gareus wrote:
>
> nitpicking: the contributions were are also _not for advertising_, but
> for _supporting the conference_. - From the contacts that I know they
> were paid using HR and/or Support budget - not advertisement-budget - of
> the companies in question.
>

So advertising is acceptable as long as it is not actually paid for?


>> If anything
>> people were very happy with that association and have even gone so far
>> as
>> to publish the keynote from the director of Ableton explaining why he
>> *will never support* a Linux version of Ableton Live.
>
> [citation needed]

Perhaps Jorn can provide the link?


>
> I'm curious. I've been at LAC'07 and while I remember a panel
> discussion, I don't recall a keynote with that message.
>

Perhaps keynote was the incorrect term. However as the conference was
almost entirely "sponsored" by Ableton and the director of Ableton made a
speech where he explained very clearly his reasons for not wanting a Linux
version of Ableton Live it would appear to have the weight of a keynote
speech.


> Anyway why is this bad? It's good to know the POV of others - especially
> if you do not agree with them.
>

I'm not saying it was "bad". I was merely pointing out that Linux Audio
has taken funds in exchange for advertising in the past. Even from
companies that were promoting an "anti Linux" agenda.

>> We have a clear track record of allowing advertising and taking money
>
> Certainly not. If anything: we take specs, bandwidth and time as
> donations and thank by mentioning the donor.
>




>> Especially if these pages are
>> considered old and unuseful which clearly is wrong if we expand the
>> allowable uses for content hosted under the LAO domain.
>
> I disagree. It'd be a step backwards.

To what exactly?

> In a commercial context, you'd need to shell out at least 500-5000 times
> the money per year of what you have been offered so far to even come
> close to what we currently have.
>

So what you are saying is that advertising at LAO is so evil as to be not
worth any time or effort in that regard?





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Patrick Shirkey
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