> When most people think "ad", they think of injecting an attempt to sell you something into an environment where it would not naturally occur, pulling your attention away from what you were doing
To me, the MOTD is like a bulletin board where I expect messages from distro maintainers about updates and the like, and it doesn't seem like a huge deal for it to include self-promotion.
Injecting advertisements into the package manager, though, feels like a distinct level, even for self-promotion. And I am not a fan. :-\
To me, the MOTD is like a bulletin board where I expect messages from distro maintainers about updates and the like, and it doesn't seem like a huge deal for it to include self-promotion.
Injecting advertisements into the package manager, though, feels like a distinct level, even for self-promotion. And I am not a fan. :-\