Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Mark Rages wrote:
>> I'm not sure how the magazines feel about their authors getting
>> kickbacks from component manufacturers.
>
> As long as it's a good article that stands on its own, I think most 
> wouldn't
> care.  Of course I wouldn't go out of my way to point it out to them 
> either.
> At least for Circuit Cellar, it's too late for that though.

LOL, I did consider the fact that Dave is a regular poster. :-) However, I 
arrived at the same conclusion as Olin: I figured that they wouldn't mind. 
It's a triple win: the magazine gets an interesting article, we get product 
exposure, and authors get bragging rights & prize money. Maybe even a 
quadruple win, if you include the readers of CircuitCellar.

I think that forbidding this kind of arrangement would be 
counter-productive: it would simply drive it underground, and hurt the 
companies that play by the rules.

Vitaliy 

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