Re: Babylon toolbar

On Apr 13, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Felix Saphir wrote:
> I'm sorry, but like David you also fail to provide a conclusive reason,
> as to why a frame and a label prevent the next iteration of this
> complaint. Setting aside, that it hasn't been "proven", how on earth
> could it be confusing that when you want to install TortoiseSVN and end
> up with an executable called "SuperDuperHighSpeedDownload-Install.exe"?
> There's also the signature validation for the extra cautious.

Why does it have to be "proven" before its done? Do you have to prove that every change you make to a website will have the effect that you desire? Why are you opposed to putting a border around the ad? What would it harm?

> The point is, that this hosting model is based on advertising. If you
> don't like that, provide a better solution. Sponsor the hosting and
> there will be no more complaints about the ads. N.B. I don't speak for
> Stefan or the TortoiseSVN team, this is just my 2¢.

I don't recall anyone suggesting getting rid of advertising. The hosting model can still be based on advertising if the advertisement has a border around it.

Put the border and label on *first* (with a promise to keep it that way for some reasonable length of time... preferably indefinitely), and I'll make a donation of €150. Seeing that have not seen any interest at all from Stefan in adding the border, there's no way I'm going to donate and hope that the border gets added. I don't know how much tortoisesvn.net's hosting costs, but seeing that the actual downloads are hosted on SourceForge, it shouldn't cost much. It seems to be hosted at metanet.ch, where hosting starts at 6.70 CHF/month, so €150 should buy over 26 months of hosting on the cheapest plan.

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Received on 2012-04-14 02:18:31 CEST