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No ad impressions from me
by raindog on Monday 31/Oct/2005, @10:43

I love KDE, but I don't use KOffice and Konqueror.... I use OpenOffice and Firefox no matter what OS or desktop I'm using.

You can say "shut up, it's free, he's being generous" but 200,000 Google Ads impressions a day isn't generosity, it's opportunity. A LOT of opportunity. And until his ad revenue buys him enough horsepower to run mainstream apps, he won't be getting any of it from me.

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Re: No ad impressions from me
by Janne on Monday 31/Oct/2005, @22:27

"You can say "shut up, it's free, he's being generous" but 200,000 Google Ads impressions a day isn't generosity, it's opportunity. A LOT of opportunity. And until his ad revenue buys him enough horsepower to run mainstream apps, he won't be getting any of it from me."

You are not giving them any money. So there are few tiny ads here and there. Big deal. And that ad-money is propably just pocket-change, nowhere nearly enough to buy lots of bandwidth and lots of servers.

Seriously: people these days seem to think that they are entitled to everything. And if they get things for free, they feel that they are still entitled to something. It used to be that when someone gave you a car for free, you were really grateful to the person who did it. But now-a-days it seems that if you get a free car, you are supposed to whine that "Dude, WTF is this?! You aren't giving me any free gasoline with this car! Nor are you giving me any spare parts! And this car isn't the latest model! I demand more! You are entitled to satisfy my whims!".

The world is going downhill, and fast...

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