[Foundation-l] No, even a couple of Google ads on each page would be a fatally bad idea

[Mono mium]

C'mon - we've been promising "no ads" for as long as anyone can remember.
People have given their money because of it...

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

>
> > An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of
> > wikipedia that really tried their utmost to make the product
> > visually appealing, and used the generated money from the
> > advertisements purely to fund ever more timely database dumps
> >
> > It would be interesting to see how frequent database dumping could be
> > financed by advertisement on such a
> > site; the synergy should be obvious -- the more money they generate
> > from adverts, the more resources they can devote to making ever more
> > frequent dumps, so the more timely is the content, which will again
> > make therir product more attractive, and so on
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
> >
>
> Whether this is great idea or not I don't know, but this is the kind of
> out of the box thinking that is potentially productive. We could produce
> periodic "polished" editions.
>
> Fred
>
>
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