On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:16:52PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > On 03/27/2012 10:39 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On 12-03-27 at 10:26am, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> Dear Project Members, > >> thanks to the introductions by Mike Hommey, as Iceweasel maintainer, > >> I've been approached by a representative of the DuckDuckGo (DDG) search > >> engine [1] about a revenue sharing agreement among them and the Debian > >> Project. > >> > >> [1] https://duckduckgo.com/ > [..] > >> I welcome feedback on this matter, > > Sorry if it is just me: What is our end of the agreement - apart from > > being ok accepting money from them? > > > > Thanks for your work on this, > For the sake of consistency Iit may be preferable to work towards having > them listed as a partner and they just donate and announce whatever they > want to donate. > > But I truly wish we'd have several of such sites through which Debian > gets some money. This could be the typical online bookshop or anything > else like me getting tires for my car. The problem I see is with a > competition with upstream. If we in any way lower the impact firefox > has for google, then this has a direct effect not only on firefox but > also on our relation with them and other upstreams.
Ubuntu has a much bigger impact, and that didn't prevent them to do that: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
