[Clipart] Advertising on your site

[Jon Phillips]

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I agree. I'm not for opening the floodgates to advertisers.

Jon



On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:25 -0500, Nathan Eady wrote:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 
> >> I think the most important thing if we decide to do some
> >>  advertising is to stay clean and do no evil.
> 
> I think it is important not to take unfair advantage of our hosting
> provider.  Advertising content that we hosted on our site would be
> using their bandwidth and resources, services that we receive from
> fdo at no charge.  If we collected any moneys by so doing, we ought
> to discuss with them how to handle that, whether a portion should
> go toward defraying their costs, and so forth.  (Do they have a
> policy already worked out, or would this be new territory?)
> 
> Remote advertising content that we only link to might have
> different considerations.  Even then, we'd want to check fdo's
> policy, if they have a policy on advertising.
> 
> And, I think it's important not to open the floodgates to
> any random advertiser to buy ad space on our site, e.g. by
> setting a fixed price for all potential advertisers.  If we
> procede, it should be clear that each deal must be worked
> out on a case-by-case basis.  I am sure there potentially
> could be things that we would not want to have advertised
> on the site, and we already know that there are some things
> we are willing to advertise at a discounted rate or free
> (e.g., Inkscape).
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