Jason from 37Signals, you obviously pulled your posting. I guess, you yourself came to the obvious answer of your rather provocative posting:
The easy answer is that as a non-pro user I am using a service for free whose creation and maintenance and operation costs the provider real money. This is the general deal with today's web applications: Don't want to pay? See some ads or live with limitations. Nothing wrong about it. Even for pro-uers of Flickr ads may be displayed. They inform you that it may happen in cases of heavy bandwidth consumption. Fine with me again. If I don't want that I have to go and use a service that is more expensive, targeted at "real" pros. No ads. Or just ones that I WANT to be placed and where I get the revenues. Ever too often people think that people providing a web-based service live off the fresh air and some praise for their work. They don't. In the end, everybody has to make money and that is perfectly legitimate.
Posted by tilman.haerdle at October 27, 2005 12:02 AM