[Windflier]

Jim is up front about his model and if it doesn't work so be it. I think this is Jims test of where we are going and I concur.

My friend, FR is far too valuable a resource to adopt such a fatalistic attitude about the existing business model. If it no longer works, then it needs to be upgraded to one that does.

Now, what that is, is up to Jim. Be it far from me to tell him what will work best for his site. That said, I've seen some very good ideas for improvements to the existing business model expressed on this thread today.

Jim has expressed extreme reservations about my particular suggestion, and I fully appreciate them, but there is a definite need for a better solution of some kind. It's my hope that one or more worthy ones will come out of this discussion.

[Jim Robinson]

It works, it works, it works! I'm not worried about it. Someone took my reply on another thread about some people leaving due to lack of updates or upgrades and read more into it than I meant. If everyone leaves then FR is dead and that would be the end of that. And it certainly would be whether we went commercial or not.

[PeterPrinciple]

My friend, FR is far too valuable a resource to adopt such a fatalistic attitude about the existing business model. If it no longer works, then it needs to be upgraded to one that does.

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You don’t get it. It is a matter of principle. It is a test to see what we are made of. If our founders had to sell ads to get the principles of freedom communicated it just wasn’t worth it. It was about the ideas them selves. If the ideas are valuable, it does not matter the vehicle.

I can tell you have never lived on principle. It is a costly thing.

The liberals constantly think we didn’t hear their message and keep changing their presentation so that we would like it. It is their message we reject, not their methodology.

You also seem to think if we get the right method they will like our message. Not going to happen. The conservative message stands on its own.