Comment Re:Open secret? (Score 5, Insightful) 313
You would hate to see it if commercially supported websites disappeared. I don't know what percentage of Slashdot's revenue comes from ads versus paying subscribers, but you'd better believe that all this bandwidth we burn up all day long has to be paid for by somebody.
Ads are like taxes.. they support the things that people want to use but don't want to pay for.
-B
