On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 00:37, Kye Lewis wrote: > ...... > > 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. > > This being the case, would it not be simply a matter of installing a > different RPM to get rid of it all? > I have no problem with the installer ads, i'll survive through those... and > the bookmarks are pushing it... > > The website does say: > > "0) There won't be any ad in the screensavers in Mandrake 9.2 > There will be one paid-ad in the installation procedure, and a few > paid-links in bookmarks. " > I think I can probably get past that
Well, I think if you're reassured by the page you're taking something of a short term view. What the case is for 9.2 isn't massively important to me, I want to see Mandrakesoft place some kind of definite boundaries on the strategy to cover *all* future releases; a definitive "here are the things we will NEVER do" statement, not just a "here are the things we haven't done yet" statement. -- adamw
