[geeks] [rescue] fwd: Linux Foundation Prepares For Microsoft's Legal Ac

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>Date: 2007/05/17 Thu PM 02:17:57 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Cc: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] [rescue] fwd: Linux Foundation Prepares For Microsoft's Legal Action

>On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:02:34PM -0400, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>> > Let's just say that the number of "Either do this, or we'll call a lawyer"
>> > requests I've gotten in the past ten years is more than two and less than
>> > ten, from various different companies about various different topics.
>> Woah. Crazy. 
>
>Yeah.  What I get/make from running SunHELP [0] and these lists isn't 
>enough to fund any legal battles.
>
>Bill
>
>[0] It barely covers its own costs, and above that, I *used* to make enough
>every month to buy a decent dinner out with the wife, or buy a couple of
>hardback books.  I moved to "If the site is helpful, please consider
>purchasing something from my Amazon wish list" [1] model and got rid of the
>Google ads, but NOTHING has come from that.  I'm considering putting the
>Google ads back up so I can at least resume making ~$50/month again...
>
>[1] http://wishlist.mrbill.net  8-)

I for one am not bothered by google ads to pay for the service - it's fair and unobtrusive. As for the wish list, I know I've given you things not on the wish list, as my excess met your needs. I don't think of checking the wishlist, it is just not something that occurs to me...

Lionel