Vitaliy wrote:
> 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.

The first thing that passed through my mind when I saw Vitaliy's original
post was, "Should this be a real Circuit Cellar Design Contest?" But then
I figured that that would be a lot more than his company would want to
commit to.

No, Circuit Cellar would not have a problem with this arrangement; like
Olin said, the article has to stand on its own technical merit anyway.
I might give it a little extra scrutiny, given that I know that this is
going on behind the scenes, but I don't think that would have a major
influence on the final decision.

-- Dave Tweed
   Circuit Cellar project editor
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