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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by kelnos on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:27AM (#20839518)
As an open source developer, I would refuse to "reach" my users in such a tacky way as selling ad space in my README. You're correct that the README is one of the few touch points with users, and I wouldn't dare waste that on something I consider so disrespectful.
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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by lolinder on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:35PM (#20840140)
Oh, I'm not talking about selling ad space. I agree that what Funded did was misguided at best. But what my parent was responding to was the idea of even putting a little ad for a paid product by the same developer or company.

If JetBrains, for example, wanted to remind me on the README for Kotlin that they have an IDE that works well with the language, that doesn't offend me.

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