Re: Faq maintainers and commericialism

---------

Imran Ghory (imrang@btinternet.com)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:10:25 +0100

On 4 Apr 99, at 11:19, Thamer Al-Herbish wrote:
> I can see it now, a toothpaste FAQ by the people at Colgate.

FAQs done by commercial companies aren't always bad, although I've found most of the good
"commercial" FAQs come from small companies.

> Right. Because of your fine selfless act, Amazon.com should profit.
> But you're not really profitting, so it's ok, because the readers
> profit at the end of the day. Love the logic.

I've had offers from commercial sites for links in several FAQs I mantain but most of the time I
respond with "Have something on your site which the readers of the FAQ would find useful, and
I'll include it".

The one instance where I've included a commercial link otherwise is for a peice of shareware
(of which I got free registration) which I use to mantain a FAQ, I felt justified in including a link to
it because it helped the FAQ and newsgroup directly.

Imran

--
'God eternally geometrizes' - Plato


Email: ImranG@btinternet.com
URL:   http://members.xoom.com/ImranG/ (Lands of Terry Brooks)

[ Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive | Search Mail Archive | Authors | Usenet ]
[ 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 ]

---------

faq-admin@faqs.org

© Copyright The Internet FAQ Consortium, 1997
All rights reserved