Comment 22 for bug 268447

@Nil: I disagree.
I see this as merely haggling over price, to abuse George Bernard Shaw's classic quote.

To rephrase my understanding of your position: Your suggestion is that advertising *is* acceptable. But you feel the line should be "here" - ie unacceptable for commercial companies.
And implying that it is quite acceptable for a developer to extol their skills, and effectively act as an (arguably :-) ) in-your-face advert to their skills and hence draw money that way.

From my perspective, the 6 pixels "height" used to write that text in RRDTool could be better spent on increasing the width of the graphs displayed - and hence increase the value of the graphs themselves. Further, the advertising text serves no purpose to enhance understanding of the graph, and thus should be excised. In line with the "rules" from several leading graphing experts (Tufte, Few et al).

Having said that? It's Tobi's project and I'm *profoundly* grateful for the existence of the tool in the first place. And if that's how he chooses to write it? So be it.

ymmv naturally. :-)