I really don't care about ads. It's a nuisance to me when I visit other sites. The whole idea of 'web property' is completely foreign to me and I have no idea how to monetize traffic. What would Tim Berners-Lee do?
marekj Watirloo: Semantic Page Objects in UseCases http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/ Support Watir Project http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2982 On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Alister Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I am personally against advertisements on watir.com, because I think it > defeats the whole purpose of creating a kick-ass open source tool, if your > main site for it has advertisements for commercial/proprietary automated > testing tools (wasn't watir created to avoid using vendorscripts?) > > Why is this thought even being raised? Are we short of money or something? > What are the big costs we need money for? The current web site is hosted (by > wordpress) for free... > > Even if we wanted to run ads on watir.com, we can't because we're using > wordpress.com. We would need to migrate the blog to our own host and then > pay hosting costs. It's a bit of a wasted effort in my honest opinion. > > I look forward to hearing others thoughts on this matter. > > Cheers, > > Alister > > Alister Scott > Brisbane, Australia > Watir Web Master: http://watir.com > Blog: http://watirmelon.com > Google: http://www.google.com/profiles/alister.scott > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alisterscott > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
