in reply to Commercial Links

I would agree with any of those. If you link to a cool book through your associates ID, and I buy it, then I would be happy for you to get the 'referer' (pun intended) fee.

But, I think Ozymandias is going a bit far with side projects. The projects section would simply be to help people with ideas to hook up with people with tuits to do a project. You are complicating things by saying PerlMonks should have anything more to do with it than just that. If I happened to start a project, posted it here (as well as just told buddies) and a person or two from here helped work on it, I wouldn't give PerlMonks anything any more than I would give my ISP anything (after all, they supplied the connection to the internet to facilitate the project) if it were sold commercially.

Besides, why would you develop anything that isn't Open Source Software? :)

Cheers,
KM

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RE: RE: Commercial Links
by Ozymandias (Hermit) on Jun 01, 2000 at 04:01 UTC
    Why? Rent, food, ISP charges, etc., etc.

    I wasn't thinking of it quite like that. If PerlMonks simply provides a "meeting room" atmosphere, then no, they shouldn't get anything in return. If, on the other hand, vroom goes a step further and creates a section that's more of a mini-sourceforge for projects, then I think he (or rather, the site) should be compensated in some way. Judging from how much he's added to this site since $day1, I wouldn't bet against a lot more than just a meeting room.

    <clarification>I just signed up for a username, but I've been lurking for several weeks/months, off and on.</clarification>

    - Ozymandias

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      In that case vroom/perlmonks.org should get exactly as much compensation as SourceForge gets.
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        Says who? I thought one of the key elements of Open Source was giving back to the community. Wouldn't that include compensation to the site/community that helped you?

        - Ozymandias

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