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On Sun, April 22, 2012 12:09 am, Robin Gareus wrote:

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> nitpicking: the contributions were are also _not for advertising_, but

> for _supporting the conference_. - From the contacts that I know they

> were paid using HR and/or Support budget - not advertisement-budget - of

> the companies in question.

>

So advertising is acceptable as long as it is not actually paid for?
>> If anything

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>> people were very happy with that association and have even gone so far

>> as

>> to publish the keynote from the director of Ableton explaining why he

>> *will never support* a Linux version of Ableton Live.

>

> [citation needed]

Perhaps Jorn can provide the link?
>

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> I'm curious. I've been at LAC'07 and while I remember a panel

> discussion, I don't recall a keynote with that message.

>

Perhaps keynote was the incorrect term. However as the conference was

almost entirely "sponsored" by Ableton and the director of Ableton made a

speech where he explained very clearly his reasons for not wanting a Linux

version of Ableton Live it would appear to have the weight of a keynote

speech.
> Anyway why is this bad? It's good to know the POV of others - especially

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> if you do not agree with them.

>

I'm not saying it was "bad". I was merely pointing out that Linux Audio

has taken funds in exchange for advertising in the past. Even from

companies that were promoting an "anti Linux" agenda.
>> We have a clear track record of allowing advertising and taking money

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> Certainly not. If anything: we take specs, bandwidth and time as

> donations and thank by mentioning the donor.

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>> Especially if these pages are

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>> considered old and unuseful which clearly is wrong if we expand the

>> allowable uses for content hosted under the LAO domain.

>

> I disagree. It'd be a step backwards.

To what exactly?
> In a commercial context, you'd need to shell out at least 500-5000 times

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> the money per year of what you have been offered so far to even come

> close to what we currently have.

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So what you are saying is that advertising at LAO is so evil as to be not

worth any time or effort in that regard?
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Patrick Shirkey

Boost Hardware Ltd

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