Nothing personal here, but for the life of me I can't understand what's so wrong with this:
Lussomo introduces sponsored links (paid advertising) into Vanilla forum software,
However, if you had read Matt's note on this first (as I did), you'd have thought that Lussomo were pulling a fast one on their users.
Here's the comment I posted in response to Matt's note (in case it doesn't get published there):
Reading your account of it, one would think that the people at Lussomo are hiding the links, making a play to abuse the trust their community has placed in them or making it difficult for people to remove them.
And then I go over and actually read the blog post, and you know what it says?
These little links will end up paying for the lion's share of costs associated with giving Vanilla away for free.
Hmmm....no mention of web-hosting - could it be that it's a way to get funding without giving up control of their software, as opposed to mad dash and grab for money?
Also:
That being said, of course there will be some installations where these links are inappropriate. You can remove them by adding the following line to your conf/settings.php file:
$Configuration['SPONSORED_LINKS'] = '';
I'm going to assume that people can follow instructions and add that line to the settings.php file if they want to remove the links.
Unless you come into this with prior bias against paid advertising in software that is 'supposed to be free', there's really no evil here, and no need to paint Lussomo with the 'evil' strokes you've done here.
Feel free to comment - especially if you guys thing I'm misunderstanding the situation.
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