Re: [PHP] Re: UK Project Opportunity

Nathan Rixham wrote:

> 
> You make every interaction with your site a horrible, painful
> interaction that is purely there to get as many adverts as you can in
> front of people, so that you can bleed every cent possible from the hard
> work and effort of PHP developers and innocent users. In short, you take
> advantage of your users, members and the PHP community.

While you are entitled to your opinion, as someone with a few classes on 
that site I do not feel taken advantage of in the slightest.

I find it to be a great resource for finding existing classes that often 
do exactly what I need but is not available in pear, and I also have 
found it to be an excellent resource for seeing how other coders solved 
certain problems.

Yes, there are advertisements on the site. Some of the advertisers 
donate useful products to be given as innovation awards and I assume 
some of them do not. Resources like that are not free to operate.

I use to run a yum repository for RHEL/CentOS that provided packages 
from Fedora/Livna that were not available in EPEL.

I had to close it down because after a couple months, my bandwidth costs 
were way too high. I do not know what phpclasses uses in terms of 
bandwidth, but I do not blame him for trying to cover his costs or even 
profiting from the service he provides, I find it to be a service that 
is of a great benefit to me.