On Fri Sep 12 18:57 +0200, Jan Ciger wrote: > MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > | Corporate branded distros? What if a company like HP wanted to "brand" the > | MDK distro for distribution on their hardware. Is there a financial > | opportunity there to charge? > | > | Cory > | > > If HP want's to brand the distro, they can already. The source is over > there. Mandrake, RedHat and others do it with their code, so HP can > "fork" the distro as well and there is no way how MDK could force them > to pay (except perhaps for permissions to use the trademarks and such). > Of course, voluntary contribution from HP would be surely welcome :-) > > If HP wants to have a distro branded for them, that's another thing, but > what has this to do with putting ads in the default download version ?
It's exactly the same mechanism. Put a few different pngs in /Mandrake/share/advertising/ and voila, you've branded the installer. Put a few different pngs in /usr/share/mdk/xscreensaver/ and voila, you've branded the screensaver. All Mandrake is doing is allowing people/companies to participate in the default branding of the distribution. -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly. Currently playing: Malena - Pari Ti (Classic Vocal Mix).ogg Linux 2.4.22-0.4mdk 13:07:01 up 3 days, 33 min, 6 users, load average: 1.33, 1.08, 1.07
