Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Neil Conway wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:15, Dave Page wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Ouch, Geocities.  That hurts.

And if you go visit a Geocities site, its not even a close analogy ...