Quote from Ian.H :

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• I'm 101% against charging for such things (don't give me the crap about bandwidth) but I'm also 101% against people putting ads on sites to gain revenue too.. so this isn't just an issue with LFS.. maybe I like the open-source theory too much hence just about everything I create / do that isn't specifically for a client I do for free

Unfortunately bandwidth is the point here. Even if LFS was open source/free, the bandwidth would still have to paid. It's not given away for free from the companies that own all the pipes.

Would be good to know the actual size that's output by LFSW. ie I did a quick calculation based on 50% compression, I imagine you are saving it max.

Also ISP broadband rates per GB are very different from hosting packages (especially if you bulk buy in the 1000's of GB )

Yesterday there was a car with a semi-nekkid lady on the front, with higher res skins I would have seen twice the detail! Brill. Reason enough to pay extra

Seriously though, looking at the cost - it is very high if you just take into consideration the amount of bandwidth used. ie 2000 skins at 100k average each lets say (have no skins to sample average size), would be approx 195mb. Equivalent £5ish per GB. Buying bandwidth in large amounts you can get it for a lot, lot less.

However if the profit helps elsewhere such as hardware improvements (goddamn slow online server listing) I would have no problem paying, the few helping the many etc.