Amazon is in general frowned upon here because of their ridiculous One-Click-Shopping-Patent. This should not keep you from posting links to Amazon on your homenode though - but you might want to consider asking vroom about his FatBrain account instead if you want to generate some income for him instead.
I don't know how he finances Perl Monks, but I imagine that some money will always be welcomed by him, as he's just a lowly student :-).
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I've posted links before to fatbrain because it is who vroom uses in Buy Stuff. In fact, all the links I've posted use vroom's account (without his permission, but I'm sure he won't complain!). In the long run, I hope it contibutes in some way to this great site.
Freedom of speech and all that: it's up to you.
Personally, I think that most visitors here will make up their own mind where they buy from and may not click on the links at all. Any stats on this?
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Slashdot *was* owned by Blockstackers, Intergalactic, which more-or-less owns the Everything Development Company.
When Andover.Net bought Slashdot from BSI, part of that money went into founding EDC.
EDC owns Perl Monks, and vroom is an employee, charged with running PM as well as programming on the Engine.
While the previous owners of Slashdot currently hold a financial stake in EDC, there is no formal relationship between Slashdot as it exists now and EDC or Perl Monks.
In practice, at least one person makes money from both. On separate checks.
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I'm sure you could click on the link down at the bottom and
read all of the wonderful information about
The Everything Development
Co.. This would then reveal that they make their money
from supporting customers who would choose to purchase their
wonderful everything engine. Seeing as how the number of
sites running everything seems to be limited to those
actually run by the everything group, they are probably not
enjoying much financial success. (note: I don't know this
as I am not associated with them.) Everything is only
associated with /. in the sense that my site is associated
with my friend's web site. In other words, they're
independent of each other, but happen to be run by real life
friends.
Update: I have left my wording intact, but realized
how it was slightly misleading to sierrathedog04. What I
meant to state is that the
Everything guys make
their money not from sales of their engine per se, but that
the engine is kind of like the product being sold. Think
about it in the sense that if I told you I'd give you a car
and I would service it for you for $10,000 dollars a year.
(yeah, I'm steep, but I'm giving you a car. :). But maybe,
you're a stuffed up sod, who can't possibly fathom getting
the car for free, so you think to yourself, "I'll pay this
gentleman $10K for this car, and he'll take care of any
problems I have for a whole year." And that's what I meant
by selling the engine. You get free service in return, and
when you want to soup up your car, your requests for that
turbo charged nitrous fuel intake are kindly filled faster
than some shmoe who took the car without buying any service.
ALL HAIL BRAK!!!
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I just mostly use fatbrain links because I find the information
they provide on the books to be more valuable than the information at other sites.
No hidden agenda here, at least not for me. Just use any link you have, I say.
Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com
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