I agree that the correct solution is to make the business model independent of clicks per ad. It is actually a stupid model anyway.
What google needs to do is to find a good method of measuring the value of their ads.
The real value of the ad is not generated when the user clicks the ad. But when the user buys something from the company. Change in sales would a good measure. Another one is change in traffic of target website.
If google cannot trust/police their customers to reports these numbers correctly google should not have these customers.
Another solution would be to let Google be compensated in form of a smaller fee plus a premium of the new sales generated. This could be done by seperating the sales generated from ad-clicks from the rest of the sales.
I have to disagree.
For companies to be able to use the GPL they have to be sure that their basis for profits can't be stolen. This in it self is no contradiction to GPL. However they will need to know that they can enforce the GPL to it's fullest extent before they can invest in developing GPL'ed software.
So I would say that the ability to enforce GPL, and if necessary 'bitchslap' companies breaking it, is essential for the survival of GPL..
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I agree that the correct solution is to make the business model independent of clicks per ad. It is actually a stupid model anyway.
What google needs to do is to find a good method of measuring the value of their ads.
The real value of the ad is not generated when the user clicks the ad. But when the user buys something from the company. Change in sales would a good measure. Another one is change in traffic of target website.
If google cannot trust/police their customers to reports these numbers correctly google should not have these customers.
Another solution would be to let Google be compensated in form of a smaller fee plus a premium of the new sales generated. This could be done by seperating the sales generated from ad-clicks from the rest of the sales.
I have to disagree. For companies to be able to use the GPL they have to be sure that their basis for profits can't be stolen. This in it self is no contradiction to GPL. However they will need to know that they can enforce the GPL to it's fullest extent before they can invest in developing GPL'ed software. So I would say that the ability to enforce GPL, and if necessary 'bitchslap' companies breaking it, is essential for the survival of GPL..