On 2011-12-02 00:32:36 (+0100), Joop Boonen
On Thu, December 1, 2011 9:01 pm, Sankar P wrote: [...]
4) Hypothetical Scenario: If Microsoft offers us a few thousand dollars as part of Bing marketing for making Bing the default search engine and homepage on openSUSE, will you accept it ? If no, Why not ?
I'm very surprised about the answers I see until now. No-one one does seem to mind to give the default home page and search engine to Microsoft. The search engine part I can imagine as (open)SuSE doesn't have a search engine. If we can get money by using bing, yahoo or whatever as a standard search engine wouldn't be wrong to me. But to swap the www.opensuse.org home page by anything else and certainly a competing product is very strange to me.
I don't think that that is what was meant. At least, I certainly didn't read it that way but, instead, as "using bing as the search engine for the search box on the opensuse.org site". To answer your reading of the question: no. $*#&@£§. way. Hope that's clear :)
I think openSuSE wouldn't be taken seriously any more if the default homepage would be the one of Microsoft, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Google Chrome etc . IMHO you would be indirectly saying "maybe you should consider this OS".
Agreed, that would be ludicrous.
I hope openSuSE won't move in this direction.
Could anyone image that Microsoft would put Apple as the default homepage or Apple the Microsoft homepage?
Would make for some fun though! :D [...] cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf