sourceforge what is going there?

[David Rysdam]

On 06/15/2010 06:40 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 06:30 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
>> Pressure from advertisers.  Sourceforce could not survive by charging
>> users/projects for the hosting, they would just go elsewhere, so they're
>> reliant (heavily) on Microsoft and other proprietary software companies
>> for funding.
>>
>> You run into the same problem with newspapers.  Journalists are actively
>> (and often strongly) encouraged to present advertisers in a positive
>> light.  Indymedia and many community papers have never accepted
>> advertising for this reason.
>>
> Ok then who pays for the papers? And who pays the people that write 
> articles for the papers and print the papers?

This seems like a strange question on a mailing list devoted to a group
that uses open source software...