RE: Re: bundling software with TSVN?

Hi Stefan,

I agree with Jean-Marc, first try with the small fee with volunteer registration and a donation button.

There are donate links on the TortoiseSVN site:

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/donate.html and the project link goes with paypal to steveking(at)gmx.ch. (=Stefan Küng?)

Also the adsense/adwords advertisements from Google are already on "your website(s)".

I guess on tortoisesvn.tigris.org you don't get the revenue or is Tigris.org sharing it with TortoiseSVN?

And on tortoisesvn.net you might get the revenue?? At least the domain is registered to Stefan Küng.

A shopping toolbar would in worst case result to:

- TortoiseSVN marked as spyware/adware by spyware removal and detection software.

- Why would the audience using TortoiseSVN be interested in shopping via a toolbar? (I am not interested in that)

- There would be removal tools created for people that (by accident) have the toolbar embedded into their windows.

- A toolbar getting installed without a clean and proper un-installation procedure. Seen that before...J

- Having a non-open source inclusion in this open source project. Is the project then still OSS? Does it need a new license?

I don't think this tortoise does need a barnacle on its shell...

Regards,

Bob

From: Jean-Marc van Leerdam [mailto:j.m.van.leerdam_at_gmail.com]
Sent: 10 March 2008 22:19
To: dev_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: bundling software with TSVN?

Stefan,

I would prefer TSVN to suggest to register for a small fee and/or suggest making a donation instead of having it shipped with ads, optional toolbars or other commercial attributes.

BTW: Have you considered a revenue distribution scheme between the contributors? Not that I want a piece of it, with my minimal translation contributions, but there are several coding contributors that assist you.

P.S.: Just out of curiosity: how much are they talking about per installed toolbar and how will you know they are telling you the truth about the numbers?

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Regards,
Jean-Marc
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