| From: | mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ... |
| Date: | 2003-01-06 18:13:19 |
| Message-ID: | 3E19C73F.4090102@mohawksoft.com |
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Neil Conway wrote:
>On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:15, Dave Page wrote:
>
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>>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.
>
>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.)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Neil
>
The PHP site shows adds.
>
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