> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 January 2003 22:38 > To: Dave Page > Cc: Marc G. Fournier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ... > > > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:15, Dave Page wrote: > > There were always ads there > > Yes -- but AFAIK there were in the process of being phased > out (furthermore, the old site only had ads on the initial > mirror page, whereas they are much more widespread on the new site). > > > they help pay for the boxes. > > Obviously, but it's VERY unprofessional for us to show ads to > users on our website. It goes without saying, but pretty much > every other non-trivial OSS project doesn't have ads on their > main website. Displaying ads makes us look more like a > Geocities site than a legitimate competitor to Oracle/DB2/etc.
Don't get me wrong, I personnally would prefer to remove them, however unless we get suitable corporate sponsorship the servers still have to be paid for somehow. Purely speculation, but I would guess that the ads are not recouping all of the cash it costs hub.org to host the sites as it is. > In fact, there are several groups that provide free hosting > for OSS projects, without requiring them to display ads on > their webpages (e.g. SourceForge, Savannah, etc.) You're surely not suggesting that the various postgresql.org servers and everything they do could be moved onto free space supplied by Sourceforge or similar? I don't think they'd want to host Gborg for us :-) Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
