On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 18:05, Dave Page wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I personnally would prefer to remove them, however > unless we get suitable corporate sponsorship the servers still have to > be paid for somehow.
Granted. I'm just trying to point out that putting ads on our webspace is a pretty serious problem. If that's the *only* way to keep postgresql.org, then so be it -- but perhaps there's another way to get the necessary funds, as Gavin suggested (for example, a more efficient mirroring scheme, using zlib compression for the main web server, etc.) > You're surely not suggesting that the various postgresql.org servers and > everything they do could be moved onto free space supplied by > Sourceforge or similar? No; I'm just pointing out that (a) putting ads on their websites is the exception, rather than the rule, among reputable OSS projects (b) even OSS projects that don't pay anything for their webspace don't need to use banner ads. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
