Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/07 17:42, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 02 17:30 -0500]: > >> 1) sf needs to pay for electricity, servers and bandwidth. >> 2) *Many* of the projects hosted on sf run on Windows. > > Fine, I understand th

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: ...AND they've obviously cozied up to MS... What evidence do you have that they've "cozied up to" MS? So far all we know is that MS has bought some ad space from them. I see a lot of knee-jerk overreaction in this thread, but not much else

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 02 17:30 -0500]: > 1) sf needs to pay for electricity, servers and bandwidth. > 2) *Many* of the projects hosted on sf run on Windows. Fine, I understand that. They can host advertisements on their Web pages and on the project pages they create, that's

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/07 17:12, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I noticed yesterday an advertising block in an email for a developers' > list for a Free Software project hosted on SourceForge.net which I > don't wish to reproduce here as to avoid giving MS free advertising.

[Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
I noticed yesterday an advertising block in an email for a developers' list for a Free Software project hosted on SourceForge.net which I don't wish to reproduce here as to avoid giving MS free advertising. Suffice it to say, I am not pleased that Free Software developers are being force fed MS ad