On 5 Jan 2003, Neil Conway wrote:
> 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.
I have no problem with the ads. I disagree with the viewpoints above.