Whatever they use for their ads, it sucks. For me the problem with ads on the web is not that they are there, but that they slow down the whole experience of web surfing. Example: DoubleClick. It is not that they are evil about data hoarding (though they well and truly are), but that they cannot deliver what they claim: serving ads to the entire web. They obviously don't have the horsepower for that, since it is often their ads which slow down loading of a page by a factor of several. The big popups are worse. They hang the whole system, and then there is this big screen that flashes things at you. My nervous system does not like that.
I will continue to favour sites which are Lynx friendly (eg, Mother Jones at
http://www.motherjones.com/
).drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
Just a short response to LL's point... It seems you are criticising RedHat for simply living up to the GNU Manifesto (not that RH actually knows it is doing that). That is, software is not a commodity to sell, it is information to give away. So if you want to make money from software you must actually add value. And the clearest way to do that is to sell support. Manuals, and human help.
Seems to me that is all RH is actually doing, even if we may agree they charge a dear price for it.
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Whatever they use for their ads, it sucks. For me the problem with ads on the web is not that they are there, but that they slow down the whole experience of web surfing. Example: DoubleClick. It is not that they are evil about data hoarding (though they well and truly are), but that they cannot deliver what they claim: serving ads to the entire web. They obviously don't have the horsepower for that, since it is often their ads which slow down loading of a page by a factor of several. The big popups are worse. They hang the whole system, and then there is this big screen that flashes things at you. My nervous system does not like that.
I will continue to favour sites which are Lynx friendly (eg, Mother Jones at
http://www.motherjones.com/
).drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
--
cu,
Bruce
drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
Just a short response to LL's point... It seems you are criticising RedHat for simply living up to the GNU Manifesto (not that RH actually knows it is doing that). That is, software is not a commodity to sell, it is information to give away. So if you want to make money from software you must actually add value. And the clearest way to do that is to sell support. Manuals, and human help.
Seems to me that is all RH is actually doing, even if we may agree they charge a dear price for it.
--
cu,
Bruce (still using 0.99.14 with a 486 pc)
drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/