The end of an era : Ads on freshrpms!

[Rudolf Kastl]

2006/4/21, Philip Trickett (List) <phil-ml at techworks.ie>:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:13 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, yeah... there are now ads displayed on the freshrpms.net website.
> > I've never liked ads in web pages, but a friend of mine got me convinced
> > to change my mind... (don't ask), so I'll trial some "don't be evil"
> > adsense Google ads for a while. I've put them with the same colors as the
> > rest, not in the way, so they shouldn't bother that much.
> >
> > I hope most of you won't mind too much...
> >
> > Currently, they don't show (yet?), so it defaults to a banner I've made
> > for an inline skate shop from Barcelona :-)
> >
> > Matthias
> >
>
> Well, it is about time you got something back for all the time you put
> into freshrpms.
>
> So, no complaints from here, and thanks for all the time and effort you
> put in.
>
> Phil
>
>

hi thias,

this if of course your personal choice and your project though i have
always avoided doing ads banners etc on newrpms for a variety of
reasons.
my vision was just that the free web id love to use and see doesent
have flashing banners and commercial advertizement because in my eyes
it doesent fit to the open source idea and i also considered it
somewhat unfair towards the developers that also give away their work
for free.
webspace and bandwith is free for open source projects of any kind so
theres no cost involved if you do things the "costless" way.
domains of course have to have paid registration but as for my project
i never thought id really require a domain for it.
just my point of views

regards,
rudolf kastl