David Megginson said:
So, in the end, my advice is not to do it. If you want to make a living or
partial living from FlightGear, set up a separate commercial site and be
prepared to learn about CRM, tax laws, incorporation laws, legal fees,
insurance, NDA's, contracts, and all the other
Jim Wilson wrote:
You see, at least on the federal level you can collect quite a large sum of
money as gifts before you have to put anything on your tax return.
I am not intimately familiar with U.S. tax laws, but I would be very
surprised if the IRS allowed Curt to count advertising revenue as a
David Megginson said:
Jim Wilson wrote:
You see, at least on the federal level you can collect quite a large sum of
money as gifts before you have to put anything on your tax return.
I am not intimately familiar with U.S. tax laws, but I would be very
surprised if the IRS allowed Curt
Jim Wilson wrote:
Maybe I've missed something in this thread, I am not talking about a
consulting business with customers, time billing, etc.
The thread started with Curt posting asking for opinions about running
banner ads on flightgear.org to raise revenue. He also indicated that he'd
be
David Megginson said:
check with people who know. I don't know U.S. professional fees that well,
but I'd guess that a full audit would leave a person at least USD 5K-10K
poorer just in accounting and/or legal fees, even if the auditors do not end
up finding anything wrong.
Well...not
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
If we put banner adds on our web site, and one of our visiters clicks
through and buys something from this company (being referred from our
site) then we would get a 10% commission from the sale.
I don't have any objections agains this idea. I just a bit unsure if
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Yes, in my most recent reply to this company, I asked specifically about
FG support (and support for operating systems not owned and operated by
MS.) It's not necessarily clear from their web page exactly how their
products interface with the computer and how they work
Boris Koenig wrote:
Getting even more extreme, one might ponder about offering that said
company to integrate their webpage address or even company logo directly
into some of the future official FlightGear releases.
No, No No. Never.
This is not going to happen.
Erik
Erik Hofman wrote:
Boris Koenig wrote:
Getting even more extreme, one might ponder about offering that said
company to integrate their webpage address or even company logo directly
into some of the future official FlightGear releases.
No, No No. Never.
This is not going to happen.
lol, didn't
Boris Koenig wrote:
SO, instead of taking my mail apart and telling me what's NOT going
to happen it might be more helpful for the final outcome to make
new suggestions
Not really. If you have spent the amount of money on FlightGear as I
have done then you may make any suggestion you like. Until
Erik Hofman wrote:
Boris Koenig wrote:
SO, instead of taking my mail apart and telling me what's NOT going
to happen it might be more helpful for the final outcome to make
new suggestions
Not really. If you have spent the amount of money on FlightGear as I
have done then you may make any
Boris Koenig wrote:
Erik Hofman wrote:
instead of some bozo who just noticed the existence of our
project
This is really getting funny - I didn't expect to have that much
fun here...
(No I'm not referring to you in this case).
Thanks, that's really nice :-)
In case you didn't notice it, I
Erik Hofman wrote:
Somebody who types faster than he reads wrote:
Thanks, that's really nice :-)
In case you didn't notice it, I really wasn't referring to you.
Well, thanks for the explanation - but I guess I understood you
correctly :-)
The only problem I have with you, is that you say too much
Boris Koenig writes:
Ya, I see - and somehow even gotta agree ... having meanwhile tried to
summarize the Nasal extensions that I would *minimally* need,
Hey I've got an idea !
Why don't you commission one of the FlightGear developers to write
the extensions you seem to *need* and pay for
Norman Vine wrote:
Boris Koenig writes:
Ya, I see - and somehow even gotta agree ... having meanwhile tried to
summarize the Nasal extensions that I would *minimally* need,
Hey I've got an idea !
I am listening ;-)
Why don't you commission one of the FlightGear developers to write
the
Boris Koenig writes:
Boris Koenig writes:
Ya, I see - and somehow even gotta agree ... having meanwhile tried to
summarize the Nasal extensions thatsee I would *minimally* need,
_I_ don't *need* a certain extension,
so which is it see quote above
but rather would like to be
Boris Koenig wrote:
But on the other hand I followed the whole discussion about FlightGear
financing and had to notice that most people simply tend to object
against any suggestions that are being made, INSTEAD of making
better suggestions themselves.
I might have missed a message, but I do not
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I want to bring a new subject before the group.
In the past we have discussed potential income sources for the FG
project, so I think it's fair to discuss another option since the
opportunity has introduced itself today.
There is a company that makes hardware (3d
On Friday 16 July 2004 22:02, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I want to bring a new subject before the group.
In the past we have discussed potential income sources for the FG
project, so I think it's fair to discuss another option since the
opportunity has introduced itself today.
There is a
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:02:31 -0500
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts? Any strong feelings? We get a pretty good chunk of daily
hits so we do have some referring power to swing around. What do you
think? Wrong way down the slippery slope? Good idea? I'll buy
On July 16, 2004 05:17 pm, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
Would it be a single company or a space broker ? Would you be able to
control the content of the advertisement ?
I am not opposed if it is related to aviation or computing.
-Fred
What he said.
If we do go ahead with this idea, would it
Lee Elliott wrote:
IMO, money exists and until there's either a well thought out alternative, or
no further need for it, you might as well try to get along with it.
Clever way to put it. :-)
However, there is a degree of implied endorsement and association so I think
that anything 'endorsed'
Lee Elliott wrote
Sent: 16 July 2004 22:18
To: FlightGear developers discussions
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?
On Friday 16 July 2004 22:02, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I want to bring a new subject before the group.
In the past we have discussed
On Friday 16 July 2004 22:41, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Lee Elliott wrote:
IMO, money exists and until there's either a well thought out alternative,
or no further need for it, you might as well try to get along with it.
Clever way to put it. :-)
However, there is a degree of implied
Curtis L. Olson schrieb:
I want to bring a new subject before the group.
[...]
If we put banner adds on our web site, and one of our visiters clicks
through and buys something from this company (being referred from our
site) then we would get a 10% commission from the sale. I believe there
is
Speaking as a user/contributor - not as a member of the project, so this is
just my personal opinion:
Assuming there are no Linux drivers, how would they feel about GPL'd ones?
Personally, while I much prefer GPL software and would really like it if they
did GPL a Linux driver, I'm not
On Friday 16 July 2004 23:45, David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
But any way you cut it, putting advertisements on our web site will
change the look and feel of our web site and probably influence the
impression our project projects to the world ...
Yes, it will make a
Good morining, just dropping in from one of the other timezones ;-)
I've also got some thoughts regarding this whole sponsoring idea, and
to be direct: I do have to admit that I wouldn't have any problems
with such a model, actually it's just a couple of days ago that I
talked to other FlightGear
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:53:51 +0100, Lee wrote in message
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On Friday 16 July 2004 23:45, David Megginson wrote:
...wisdom omitted...
These are good points. Glad it's not my call.
..amen.
..they want banner ads, they ship us free hardware and pay us
to write GPL drivers
Curtis wrote:
I want to bring a new subject before the group.
In the past we have discussed potential income sources for the FG
project, so I think it's fair to discuss another option since the
opportunity has introduced itself today.
There is a company that makes hardware (3d glasses,
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