On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:35 +0000, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I >> see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent >> enough to say, "hey, we need $$$ to put this working" and ask for it. > > Diaspora started as a free-for-all, no $$$ attached. Either that or i > read them wrong. Happens. That i later got an email saying We love you, > please donate was rather sad. I never said it's wrong for open source > projects to ask for money.
I can only tell what sources say: Diaspora* was released on November 2010 after they collected 200,000 USD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_%28software%29 I also have seen Wikipedia founder showing on a big banner asking for money from time to time and I have no problem with that. I don't remember Wikipedia started by asking money to their users but now they do because they need it. That's fine. >>> People who care about their privacy might most likely not care for >>> social networks and be, instead, concerned if the login details of the >>> café's website are sent encrypted or not. >> >> There is nothing wrong in using social networking techniques to enhance >> your business. They're an easy and free way of massively advertizing. >> Securing the AP has nothing to do with this, you can care in both >> things: marketing and technical stuff. > > Keyword: might. Also never said social media doesn't make good, cheap > advertising. > > OP oughta focus on intended audience first, then he'll know which means > to use. Sure! I also agree that tecnical issues have to have preference over marketing but we are living hard days and everything, every little detail, it counts :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jglvl1$g99$1...@dough.gmane.org
