Linux Mint splits its revenue with Banshee

Apparently things are taking their course. After the controversial international debate on the change that Linux Mint will perform in Banshee to get 100% of the revenue with your plugin Amazon, the developers of the French distribution have reversed everything to distribute the profits 50-50.

Now Linux Mint will deliver the 50% of all earnings to Banshee, as has been well reflected in this website.

Since July 2010 Banshee has had Amazon MP3 Store integration. Amazon pays an affiliate fee for purchases (10% of MP3s, less for other items), all of which goes to the non-profit GNOME Foundation, except on distributions that patch our code: Ubuntu, where Canonical takes a 75% cut, and Linux Mint, where they keep 50%.

This is how things are fixed and everyone wins.


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  1.   Mauricio said

    As much as Mint did or might not be justified, I think this is the right thing to do. At the end of the day, the corporate image must also be cared for.

  2.   Courage said

    French distribution

    You have taken away more the desire to try it with that HAHA

    Otherwise I think it's fine, not like acting Mark

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      Did you get a taste of Windows? Fuck how it lasted you .. hahaha

      1.    Oscar said

        Courage criticizes Ubuntu but he uses the Unnamable, I prefer Ubuntu which is linux, hahaha.

        1.    Courage said

          Well, in that case I prefer Windows, so there are no ubuntosos or Tito Mark fucking

    2.    Titan said

      Sometimes one uses the "unnameable" out of obligation, like I use it in my work because that does not depend on me. What I don't understand is Courage's obsession with Mark and Ubuntu, if they didn't care I wouldn't even name them. LOL

      1.    elav <° Linux said

        That's a childhood trauma that Courage has. I think he dreamed that Uncle Mark stole his pacifier while listening to Justin Bieber ...

        1.    Oscar said

          More than a trauma it seems like a compulsive obsession, hehehehehe.

        2.    Courage said

          Well, I don't know who will be the biggest Justin Bieber fan because of the interview ...

    3.    Edward2 said

      I ask Garbage to ban until he uses an OS as God intended.

      1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

        LOL !!!!

      2.    Courage said

        I have already sent one of the computers to take a look to see if it can be fixed, that I am already fed up with using Windows

  3.   jose said

    Are you French or Canadian?

    1.    Oscar said

      According to Distrowatch she is Irish.

  4.   Thirteen said

    I think they made a good decision. And I would not be surprised if at some point that 50% could become higher, in net income, than that 100% that was creating a debate, not about its legality, but about the moral quality of LM.

    If it was a strategic decision to close the debate and prevent LM's image from getting dirty, I think they were smart (although Machiavellian: yes). But if the decision was because they found sense and reason in the criticism, reaching the conclusion that they themselves morally disapproved of their original decision; then they would not only have been smart, but also admirable from my point of view.

    Frankly, I am inclined to think that it was more of a strategic decision, as it seems to me that it corresponds more with the way in which other decisions have been made in the development of LM that have been very effective.

    Greetings.