[Dev] About DuckDuckGo offer to Parabola...

[Charles E Roth]

I think the REVENUE SHARING idea is fine if:

1) We make clear to DDG they have to continue to meet our privacy &  freedom goals

2) We disclose on the Wiki the arrangement.

CER




On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 05:39:22PM -0700, André Silva wrote:
> Hi parabolers, I received a email from duckduckgo by Prakash Swaminathan
> because they want to know if it could be included on our browsers. I
> answered that we have included duckduckgo as main search engine on our
> browsers. So, they proposed 2 things for us. I would to put those mails to
> parabola mail list to that we decide in community.
> 
> Here are the following messages:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
>  Subject:  DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola
>  Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:18:18 +0530
>  From:  Prakash Swaminathan <prakash at duckduckgo.com>
>  To:  emulatorman at lavabit.com
>  CC:  eli at duckduckgo.com
> 
> André,
> 
> At DuckDuckGo, we believe that privacy and better search are not mutually
> exclusive.
> 
> We are available in Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Opera and can offer your
> users a compelling alternative search option.
> 
> What is the process to add DuckDuckGo to Parabola?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Prakash
> --
> 
> Prakash Swaminathan,  https://duckduckgo.com/
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
>  Subject:  Re: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola
>  Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:19:31 -0200
>  From:  André Silva <emulatorman at lavabit.com>
>  To:  Prakash Swaminathan <prakash at duckduckgo.com>
> 
> Prakash,
> 
> At Parabola, DuckDuckGo is our main search engine, eg: duckduckgo was
> included in about:home and search bar in iceweasel-libre and icecat. Others
> browsers as Konqueror-libre contains DuckDuckGo as search engine option on
> our distro [0].
> Other search engines as Google, Yahoo and Bing were removed in our distro,
> due that they doesn't respect our privacy.
> We put those modifications in a patch [1] [2] and was created a package
> called mozilla-searchplugins, that includes DuckDuckGo in our plugins list
> for Mozilla based browsers [3].
> We believe and advocate the freedom and privacy in the computing and in this
> case DuckDuckGo, Seeks and YaCy are the best search engines for our distro.
> 
> Regards,
> André Fabian Silva Delgado
> 
> [0]
> https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/kdebase-runtime-libre/duckduckgo_lite.desktop
> [1]
> https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/iceweasel-libre/libre.patch
> [2]
> https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/icecat/libre.patch
> [3]
> https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/mozilla-searchplugins/duck-duck-go-lite.xml
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
>  Subject:  Re: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola
>  Date:  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:36:47 +0530
>  From:  Prakash Swaminathan <prakash at duckduckgo.com>
>  To:  André Silva <emulatorman at lavabit.com>
>  CC:  eli at duckduckgo.com
> 
> André,
> 
> Thanks!  Delighted to hear that we are the default search engine in
> Parabola.
> 
> We offer revenue-share in two ways:
> 
> - If DuckDuckGo is the default search engine we split revenue 50-50%
> 
> - If DuckDuckGo is an option among other search engines, we would split 25% 
> 
> Would this be of interest to you?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Prakash
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
>  Subject:  Re: DuckDuckGo as a search option in Parabola
>  Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:22:05 -0200
>  From:  André Silva <emulatorman at lavabit.com>
>  To:  Prakash Swaminathan <prakash at duckduckgo.com>
> 
> Prakash,
> 
> I'm very grateful by the offer that you are sending for Parabola by my
> intermediation, but our distro was created by a small community of
> hackers, and i think that the best way is send your offer to our mail. I
> give to you the following email to that you can communicate to us:
> 
> dev at lists.parabolagnulinux.org
> 
> Waiting your response soon, kind regards:
> André Fabian Silva Delgado
> 



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