On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:16:25 -0600, André Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hei,
>Get money to help OOo in many fields...
Not exactly. I was talking about publicity.
If we can get money - we will find the way to deal with that, but that
is not
primary motivation.
How do you get publicity by including a toolbar? It's all about money.
The macromedia guys said that openly in response to the wide rage
occurring when they introduced the Y/bar bundling.
Your reasons seems valid and I agree with them, however alreadin having
this on OOo and not triying to do something withit is even dummer.
It was bad for their publicity; yes, also among folks which are not
fundamentalist Free Software maniacs.
Was it bad because it was handled wrong? I think Free software need to
excel on services from third parties. Not compromising the suite but
making value added decisions. Building an API to exchange documents with
Google, and reporten the schema could benefit Google but also benefit
other suites if they decide to implement it. For example we could have it
open and connect to ajax13.com, slideshare.com, and even make it easier
for free software projects to implement it.
Yes, you could use money for promotion, but it's money that you get in
the first place, not publicity.
We all agree that development cost money or time, if we have money we
could speed more development. I agree thta google is not the only
solution, but is there a way to compromise our lesser known tools it will
give them advantage of being more used (talking about web search).
In fact, bundling some crap you don't want is pretty bad for your image
and every company doing it got marked with the "dodgy" stamp right away.
I agree except is already built in.
>Please don't feel offended - your goal is comprehensible. But in my (of
>course personal) opinion it's the wrong way.
I second that.
André.
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