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Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-their-cut dept.

LinuxScribe writes "According Linux Mint founder Clement Lefebvre, the popular Linux Mint distribution has changed the Amazon.com affiliate code for the Banshee music player so that Mint, not Canonical or the GNOME Foundation, will receive the revenue from MP3 sales through Banshee. Though a trivial amount of money ($3.41 in November 2011), Linux Mint's actions still raise the question: how should revenue be shared between upstream and downstream FLOSS projects?"

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  1. They deserve it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux Mint 12 made GNOME3 usable. They deserve the $3.41.

    1. Re:They deserve it by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As long as $0.27 goes to X.Org, those guys do great work.

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    2. Re:They deserve it by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wayland is the way of the future.

      It has futuristic things like:
      * No network transparency!
      * Client side window decorations! This will offer the following futuristic features:
          * Every toolkit providing subtly different window decorations
          * Hung applications have immovable windows which get in the way and make life suck, like other popular operating systems
          * Impossible to use a decoration free tiling window manager to maximize screenspace
          * Impossible to use a window manager which adds useful extra window decorations and functions
      * And apparently, endless arguments about how copy/paste should work.

      But hey, at least it will provide a much needed performance boost for those of us still stuck on a Sun 3/60. Also, the .1ms latency introduced by a compositing window manager has really been bugging me recently.

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  2. Re:Find a better case for the discussion by icebraining · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has nothing to do with software freedom. It's not a question of whether Mint should have the right to do it, but whether they are jerks or not by doing it.

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