[tex-live] Install Texlive 2008 "The Pirate Bay" website --- uncompressed

[Morten Høgholm]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> writes:
>
>> And how can you say what advertisement suits texlive potential users?
>
> That's not the question.  The question is what advertisements are
> acceptable to the content providers, in this case the TeXlive team.

I agree with David here and I know from private mail conversions that
he and I are certainly not alone.

A producer would usually like to control its sales channels which in
this particular case is where users can download the software. Does
one want a very useful and free piece of software like TeXlive to be
associated with software piracy (just the name of the website for
crying out loud!) and "instant sexual charisma" as the advert said
when I just visited the torrent? I can understand if one doesn't.

If you look at the business world, some high-end suppliers of home
entertainment refuse to sell their products in hypermarkets because it
will associate their products with what they believe to be inferior
products and buyers will be less likely to pay the extra premium for
the high-end product. Brand value and image as we would say in the
media business.
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Morten