I count among those who are happy to see money in opensource projects. It might raise tricky governance problem at times but in this case it seems ok. I suppose some of the money (5-25% depending on qutebrowser coding workload is handled) could be redistributed as bug bounties so that other regular contributors can benefit from it.
2016-07-26 17:35 GMT+02:00 benh <[email protected]>: > +1 for set default to what ever Florian wants and we can change as needed > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:21 AM Brent Moran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Set any defaults you like; your user base is plenty competent to change >> them (and will probably stay that way, given the nature of the browser >> :) ). Of course, that may mean the income from setting such a default >> will be severely diminished. I guess if no one uses it, you can always >> change it back (or to something else) later. >> >> Brent >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Florian Bruhin wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I got contacted by the Ecosia search engine a few days ago: >> > https://www.ecosia.org/ >> > >> > They seem to get their results via Bing mostly (DuckDuckGo gets them >> > from Yahoo and in some regions Yandex/Bing) and apparently use (part >> > of) their ad income to plant trees: >> > https://info.ecosia.org/what >> > >> > I was asked whether I was interested in using it as a default search >> > engine for qutebrowser (instead of duckduckgo), and I'd get half of >> > the ad income generated by qutebrowser searches in return. They claim >> > this is about 2000 EUR per month for a partner of similar size - >> > though I'm currently asking for clarification as I'm not sure their >> > predictions about qutebrowser users are accurate ;) >> > >> > I'd like to hear some more opinions about this - if there's really >> > some four-figure income associated with this I could probably continue >> > working part-time on qutebrowser after my study (i.e. in about three >> > years) which would be a nice thing and help qutebrowser a lot. >> > >> > On the other hand, while Ecosia seems quite cool, it seems to lack >> > some functionality (like instant answers) compared to duckduckgo. >> > >> > What do you think? >> > >> > Florian >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) >> > GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc >> > I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/ >> >> > -- > > #stay-awesome
