Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Supporting GNOME on Ubuntu

["Bearcat M. Sandor" <hometheater feline-soul com>]

On 2/15/2011 9:23 AM, Gabriel Burt wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> We have been proud to support GNOME by sending 100% of our FOSS Amazon 
> MP3 store's affiliate revenue to the Foundation.  We're already on 
> pace to contribute at the same level as a small company on the 
> Advisory Board, $10,000 USD per year, and revenue is increasing every 
> month.
> After choosing Banshee as the next default player in Ubuntu, Canonical 
> approached us, concerned with how our Amazon store would affect their 
> Ubuntu One store.  They proposed two options:
> 1) Canonical disables the Amazon store by default (you could enable it 
> in a few easy steps) but leaves the affiliate code alone (100% still 
> to GNOME), or
> 2) Canonical leaves the Amazon store enabled, but changes the 
> affiliate code and takes a 75% cut.
> We are pleased that Canonical is willing to leave the affiliate code 
> unaltered.
> As maintainers of the Banshee project, we have opted unanimously to 
> decline Canonical's revenue sharing proposal, so that our users who 
> choose the Amazon store will continue supporting GNOME to the fullest 
> extent.  The GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors supports this decision.
> The Banshee Maintainer Team
> Aaron Bockover, Alexander Kojevnikov, Bertrand Lorentz, Gabriel Burt
As a user, thank you very, very much!  *This* is one of the reasons that 
i'm an opensource zelot.
Now, if only Amazon or Canonical offered lossless files, i'd actually 
use the service :")
Bearcat M. Sandor