RE: RE: Commercial Links

Why? Rent, food, ISP charges, etc., etc.

I wasn't thinking of it quite like that. If PerlMonks simply provides a "meeting room" atmosphere, then no, they shouldn't get anything in return. If, on the other hand, vroom goes a step further and creates a section that's more of a mini-sourceforge for projects, then I think he (or rather, the site) should be compensated in some way. Judging from how much he's added to this site since $day1, I wouldn't bet against a lot more than just a meeting room.

<clarification>I just signed up for a username, but I've been lurking for several weeks/months, off and on.</clarification>

- Ozymandias

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RE: RE: RE: Commercial Links by takshaka (Friar) on Jun 01, 2000 at 04:20 UTC
In that case vroom/perlmonks.org should get exactly as much compensation as SourceForge gets.	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: RE: Commercial Links by Ozymandias (Hermit) on Jun 01, 2000 at 06:19 UTC
Says who? I thought one of the key elements of Open Source was giving back to the community. Wouldn't that include compensation to the site/community that helped you? - Ozymandias	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Commercial Links by takshaka (Friar) on Jun 01, 2000 at 07:25 UTC
It seems that the open source community often likes to dictate the terms of compensation rather than accept a gift freely given (GPL vs Artistic comes to mind). I'm much more inclined to reward someone who aided me without thought of compensation than someone who had his hand out from the start.	[reply]