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On 04/22/2012 04:04 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

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> On Sun, April 22, 2012 12:52 pm, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:

>> On 04/22/2012 05:13 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

>>> Do other people here have any strong opinions on the usefulness of

>>> advertising in the Linux Audio community?

>>>

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>> Yes. I completely adhere to Robin's stance.

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> You do realise that many of the tools being produced by the Linux Audio

> Community are being used in the advertising industry which makes us all

> complicit in supporting it to start with.

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> IMO we cannot avoid that fact that advertising and marketing is a very

> crucial component to global industry which enables the corporate world to

> continue to function. We should seek to manage our own channel and

> therefore the message and brand rather than avoid it all together out of

> some ridiculous fear of becoming Evil.

Sorry, it is not ridiculous at all.
>We may even make enough money in

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> the process to pay some of our community members and help them to be

> productive and motivated.

Managing our channel? Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do you mean

advertising our message on __other__ sites? What is "our message"?
> If we continue to avoid the whole issue that is exactly what the "Evil"

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> marketing companies and corporations would like for us to do so that they

> can have complete control over the message, brand, content and income

> stream...

It would seem to me the issue is not being avoided at all (witness the

long thread I'm still reading), it is just that not all people in this

list - which you asked for feedback - agree with your view of the world

and what linuxaudio.org should/could/must be.
Linuxaudio.org currently has (AFAIK) complete control of its brand,

content and message. It is being kindly hosted by vt.edu and run by

volunteers. But of course I don't know the details. Advertising, if

anything, will dilute the control of the brand content and message - the

way I see it of course, you will disagree. As everything else in the

world, who puts the money eventually controls the message, not the other

way around.
If advertising is accepted I presume linuxaudio.org will have to be

hosted somewhere else (out of the .edu domain). Then advertising becomes

a requirement for the survival of linuxaudio.org. No advertising, no

hosting money. The more linuxaudio.org depends on advertising to run,

the more it will be subject to control of its message.
-- Fernando

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