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Great Question! They link to their exactly 1 Gambling Sponsor Gamblify because they are a sponsor who've chosen to utilize the benefit of their sponsorship to l
by mythz 3y ago
Great Question! They link to their exactly 1 Gambling Sponsor Gamblify because they are a sponsor who've chosen to utilize the benefit of their sponsorship to link to their website.
The reason why other OSS projects you've looked at don't link to Gamblify is because they don't sponsor them, thanks for your question.
I have a question, what motivated you into asking a misleading question?
- Rapzid 3y agoAre there OSS projects that have gambling based business sponsors that don't link them?
- ehsankia 3y agoHow is it misleading? No one is forcing Godot to accept a sponsor and showcase them. Where do you draw a line? Would they also accept and showcase an adult website? A piracy website?
- eep_social 3y agoI sure hope so. I like piracy, porn, and gambling and would be extremely pleased to be directed to any business in those categories that chose to sponsor an open source game engine.
- mythz 3y agoThey've implied there are many Gambling sponsors, that most other OSS projects are either refusing to accept sponsorship from Gambling companies or refusing to link to them after receiving their sponsorship, that collectively all OSS projects are actively doing this, when it's simply the "most open source projects " being referred to simply aren't receiving logo-tier sponsorship from Gamblify. IOTW It's making a misleading statement, phrased as an innocent question.
- promiseofbeans 3y agoGenuine curiosity - I didn't mean for the question to be misleading (and I'm still jot quite sure how it is). I know that historically gambling sites have paid to have oss projects link to them in order to make them look more reputable to search engines, but search engines use different heuristics now I know. I've also read of projects actively rejecting gambling sponsors or taking their money but refuse to publicly acknowledge the sponsorship. Taking the money without linking to the gambling site kinda makes sense to the gambling site if they use Godot and want to support it, but then why would Godot still link to them in that case? I'm just curious why Godot is willing to tarnish their reputation, and also what yhe gambling company stands to gain from being linked to by Godot.
- mythz 3y ago> I'm just curious why Godot is willing to tarnish their reputation A non-profit accepting sponsorship from legal corporations to pay for its developer resources to improve their free product to the benefit of all its users wont tarnish their reputation. Obvious questions phrased to imply misleading statements is what would attempt to tarnish their reputation, thankfully it's a fairly transparent attempt so I expect it will be mostly ignored. > why would Godot still link to them in that case? Answered by TFA "Displaying your name or company is opt-in. You control it being public or private."
- pabs3 3y agoWhenever I see such links, I assume the website has been hacked, its always weird to see open source projects accept such dubious sponsors.
- throwawaypml 3y agoI don't get your point... you would rather they hide the fact by not linking ??? I much prefer the transparency.