[wp-hackers] Text ads in themes

[David Chait]

BTW, just got a rush of hackers emails through, and wanted to update my 
statement. :)

I think 'hiding ads in plain view' is bad, without the mentioned caveats 
prior to download that Matt and others have mentioned.  But a link back to 
the author's site would be a different story -- I thought that's where the 
conversation was going (i.e., author's shouldn't put links in at all, 
shouldn't benefit in the slightest...), and obviously disagree with that 
extreme. ;)

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Chait" <davebytes at comcast.net>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Text ads in themes


| Gotta agree with both points.  Never have heard a peep about the default
| blogroll links.  At the same time, someone develops a theme with a link, 
let
| them!  It's one thing to be open source, it's another thing to think that
| any of us are stinking rich and can just 'do this for fun' ad infinitum...
|
| -d
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Charles" <lists06 at wiltgen.net>
| To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
| Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:13 PM
| Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Text ads in themes
|
|
||> Live and let live is quite a bit different from "let you use my website
|| for your gain".
||
|| Eh.  <shrugs>  WordPress's default blogroll links have the same effect
|| (times a few hundred thousand), and I don't think anybody would begrudge
|| Matt that.
||
|| All I'm saying is that I don't think it's worth your time worrying about
| it.
|| There's really no positive effect to be had in denying WordPress fans 
link
|| karma crumbs.
||
|| -- Charles
|
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