22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
4:34 a.m.
On Sun, April 22, 2012 12:09 am, Robin Gareus wrote:
Perhaps Jorn can provide the link?
To what exactly?
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]
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. 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?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd