Revenue generating features in Pidgin

[Eoin Coffey]

On Feb 12, 2008 5:19 AM, Hylke Bons <h.bons at student.rug.nl> wrote:

> Even if some advertisements were placed, they will probably be removed
> by the linux distributions.
> I do find the spell check idea, where you can see where the suggestions
> came from, is an interesting idea.
> This will also make Pidgin less dependent on spell checking libraries.
> It's like the Google search bar in Firefox. But it should never be
> something like a search bar or just a plain ad, because it has nothing
> to do with Pidgin.
>
> Hylke
>
> Matí­as Alejandro Torres wrote:
> > Not a developer,
> >
> > One of the nicest things about open software are its freedom of choice
> > and the absent of advertisements in anoying places, please don't :'(
> >
> > Matías
> >
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It seems that if we're concerned about generating revenue to support some of
the core developers then setting up a paypal donation link / sf.net donation
link when one goes to download pidgin would be a less intrusive way.

-Eoin
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