Ok, A thought here. In an effort to be constructive. How many times have you seen on say Automobile company sites something like Volkswagen or Toyota, screensavers you can download? Linux has never been "ripe" with high quality screensavers. They either are beautiful CPU suckers like some of the openGL ones (keuphoria for example) or butt ugly ones like juggle. What if Mandrake sold "space" on the disk for these companies to create Linux screensavers. I mean a full blown screensaver. Not just a random picture collage. One thing a lot of these are designed to be is beautiful. (on windows or MAC) We win. MDK wins and the companies win. Then the user can choose which advertising screen saver they want. It doesn't feel intrusive like popunders or the read this page or you can't go on crap. But it is an add. I mean heck. The new IBM add for Linux would make a great screensaver. And if the user chooses it, they can't complain. I mean heck I'd chose a screensaver from Chrysler based on the new Crossfire. Or maybe one from Lancome featuring some stunningly beautiful faces wearing their makeup. They pay MDK for the right to be in the distro, They pay MDK for the help in creating the screensavers. (MDK could subcontract that part.) They get a longer and more valuable impression level. Heck they could even have the new ones as downloads in update and send the companies feedback as to the number of downloads. That's not intrusive, nor does it invade privacy. They could be targeted. With screensavers marked de ca, en tw etc., so people get what they want. What do ya'll think? The only thing they would have to be is quiet. (think business office or even worse a real quiet house when suddenly the screensaver kicks in on box 2 and you forgot to turn down the sound after listening to the latest mp3 from NIN.) I mean if it's here. It's real. It's not going away. So why not benefit from it completely?
James
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