http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/mdkads.php3Well said!
I think your concerns are unfounded, and I also think you're being a little silly. Do you close your eyes when you're driving around and see billboards that advertise stuff? Do you close your eyes and mute the TV when the commercials are on? Do you leave the theatre because you paid to see a movie and not a car commercial before the feature starts?
I think you're a little out of line here, personally. It's not that intrusive, there will be no "plastering" of ads, and once you modify the bookmarks, they're gone. How many times do you plan to install and actually watch the entire install (does anyone do that anymore?)
Besides, it's ok to advertise links to OSS and GNU stuff but it's not ok to advertise Linux-related commercial stuff to make a couple bucks so we can have another version of Mandrake in the future?
I hate to say it, but it cracks me up how people are so against advertising, our business model, and things we do to make revenue so that the developers and others in the company can eat and afford to spend all of their time working on the distro. Sounds like the community would rather have a nice distribution but all the developers should be homeless and starving.
(And no, I won't bother contributing to this thread anymore)
Stefan
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