On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Neil Conway wrote: > > 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. > > Ouch, Geocities. That hurts.
And if you go visit a Geocities site, its not even a close analogy ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
