Posted by: DCallaghan
on October 01, 2002 01:19 AM
I would hardly consider the ad prices of OSDN to be the kind of thing only IBM, Microsoft, et. al. can afford. APPX, Covalent, and others also don't have the revenue of an IBM and they advertise here. For the most part, the ads are made up of filler like ThinkGeek, an OSDN company.
I know you were really excited to write another e-mail with all those mispellings and dollar signs and accuse anyone who doesn't agree with your little fifteen-yesr old outlook on life, but you're wrong. OSDN sells ads because they need the money. Banner ad sales have been in the toilet for about two years. Banner ad sales for an open source site must be trivial. They wouldn't have sold the space if they didn't need the money.
I'm willing to continue to support open source sites like OSDN because I support the community. In the meantime, I'm enough of a grownup to not get my panties in a wad because something I see here makes me sad. One day, when you know longer live in your parent's basement, you may feel the same way. Its a maturity thing.
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Posted by: DCallaghan on October 01, 2002 01:19 AMI know you were really excited to write another e-mail with all those mispellings and dollar signs and accuse anyone who doesn't agree with your little fifteen-yesr old outlook on life, but you're wrong. OSDN sells ads because they need the money. Banner ad sales have been in the toilet for about two years. Banner ad sales for an open source site must be trivial. They wouldn't have sold the space if they didn't need the money.
I'm willing to continue to support open source sites like OSDN because I support the community. In the meantime, I'm enough of a grownup to not get my panties in a wad because something I see here makes me sad. One day, when you know longer live in your parent's basement, you may feel the same way. Its a maturity thing.
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