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#1 2004-03-25 17:03:48

galen
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Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

it is offensive that Linux users have to be subjected to Google ads that promote MicroSoft

for days the google adverts have been advertising this

Linux News
Why is Microsoft cheaper than Linux?
Get the facts now!


that ad leads everyone directly to MS propaganda site.

:shock:


Off to using Peanut and Slackware, no hard feelings but I need my CD to burn, PDA and scanner to connect and arch won't do it.

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#2 2004-03-25 17:07:41

Arielext
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

well you don't have to click it!
do don't even have to bother, but I guess that'll never happen when "the root of all evil" is advertised on this site.


apt-get install arch

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#3 2004-03-25 17:51:24

Dusty
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

Arielext wrote:

well you don't have to click it!

Click it! Google ads pay Arch + MS pays google = MS pays Arch.

good scam, no?

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#4 2004-03-25 18:07:56

mcubednyc
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From: New York, NY USA
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

galen wrote:

it is offensive that Linux users have to be subjected to Google ads that promote MicroSoft

If you use Firefox, see:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/adblock.html

Do that and you won't see the ads.


"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." - S. Jackson

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#5 2004-03-25 19:00:29

Xentac
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

It's offensive that people find a competing products offensive.  I've started a list of things that I find offensive.  I find stupid people offensive, we should get rid of those.  I find snow offensive, quit it.  But especially, I find cheese offensive.

I mean, come on, they're a software company like any other.  You may not agree with them, but they're allowed to advertise wherever they want to.

There was a large arguement in Linux Journal about Microsoft ads there.  I'm pretyt sure they kept them too.


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#6 2004-03-25 19:26:20

tsykoduk
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

I find avatars of people's butts offensive.   8)


Honestly, it makes arch some cash to run the servers. I have no problem with it, and I even welcome it!

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#7 2004-03-25 19:34:22

Xentac
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

Well, I'm glad that I can offend someone then.


I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room
- Blaise Pascal

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#8 2004-03-25 20:02:52

Dusty
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

Xentac wrote:

I find snow offensive.

Snow isn't so bad as Coastal dwellers like yourself complaining about it... how long since you saw any snow, couple months? Still feet of it lying around here, thanks.

I agree with you about stupid people. I'm thinking about some sort of unintellectuocide, anybody interested?  roll

Dusty

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#9 2004-03-25 20:35:09

Luis Q. R.
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

Pffff, everybody wants to go to the party but nobody wants to pay the bills. Arch is used by thousands of people afaik, but as I see in the donations page, only 36 have contributed to keep the servers up, me being one of them. Because Linux is not free as in freedom for you, but free as free beer, quoting R. Stallman. If you can't take some advertising that's making possible for you to enjoy this distro, maybe someday you're gonna find you've lost something very valuable forever.

And for the developers, it's not always good to be the good boys. Some ads won't hurt.

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#10 2004-04-05 15:33:06

im_ka
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

you really hate those ads, don't you?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=3112

roll

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#11 2004-04-05 15:38:55

srey
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

Xentac wrote:

I find snow offensive

Snow?  What's that?   Oh, that's right, you live way up there!  smile


Arch 0.6 - Kernel 2.6.5 - Fluxbox 0.9.8

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#12 2004-04-05 15:47:40

srey
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

Xentac wrote:

I find stupid people offensive, we should get rid of those.

Would that be:  pacman -R stupid-people ?


Arch 0.6 - Kernel 2.6.5 - Fluxbox 0.9.8

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#13 2004-04-05 17:11:25

Dusty
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Re: Microsoft adverts on forum and site via google ads

I think its just

rm -r humanity

roll

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