Re: [Firebird-website] SourceForge logo on our pages

[Helen B. <he...@fi...>]

At 03:53 AM 23/12/2006, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Should we keep the SF logo at the bottom of our web pages? I got a
>privacy warning from Firefox that sourceforge.net was trying to place
>a cookie (we load this image from the SF site).

The (original) reason for having it there was that it is attached to 
a hit counter for SF statistics purposes.  (In those days we cared 
about high percentile placing!)

>I don't suspect SourceForge of having any evil plans here, but why keep
>the image anyway? (Except for intentional links to sourceforge.net, in
>which case we should probably copy it, if permitted.)

These days I have no idea whether that old hitcounter routine is 
still operational and affecting our stats positively.  SF has changed 
a lot in 6 years and its statistics are less reliable than ever.  My 
attitude to it has been "leave it there, it does no harm and it might 
do some good".  But SF is also a heck of a lot more commercial 
nowadays.  If it's writing cookies it's probably not for altruistic 
purposes....

Pavel, your call...

Helen