On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:26:55 -0500, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:
I don't have the details at hand here so I'd rather bring it up when I'm back in Belgium. Unfortunately, I guess that is too late now.
Sorry, Dries. I just felt this was the right time to keep moving this forward.
I think that's a whooole different approach than the Wordpress issue. Wordpress was doing it "secretly", and in a pretty borderline-ish way (I, personally, think that this is bad, very bad, and don't agree with ANYONE supporting this approach).
And, it was (IMHO) misusing the wordpress.org domain.
a) clearly defaults to "off". Yes.
b) clearly admitted it'd help Drupal make money to offset costs Yes, but it doesn't matter (see explanation)
c) offered the user a chance to use their ID instead of Drupal's
Let me outline it as I understand it (again, sorry Dries -- I know you've been busy and probably didn't have time to move this forward): * Google would like Drupal to include an AdSense.module with the drupal distribution * of course, you would input your AdSense ID into this module * if a user did not have an AdSense ID, they would go sign up for an account * Google would pay Drupal.org $25US for every user that signed up for an ID There is nothing here about using a "Drupal" account to flow payments to, although that could be an option. I think it would be a fantastic, win-win option -- lots of people that run Drupal sites struggle with enabling AdSense. Those that don't want to use it, don't have to. -- Boris Mann http://www.bryght.com