OLC needs money, or is this just poor marketing?

Even Wikipedia time to time is asking for money to cover costs.
Only a few people are paying for OLC, and nevertheless the service is top
quality.
If you have 9 users on a day, like on october 12th 2013, it is easy to
provide a service at no cost.
OLC the same day provided the service to 188. But that's pointless, seen as
a special case.
On june 7th, OLC had to deal with 2396 flights processed. Skylines dealt
with 47.
I am not saying that innovative skylines cannot deal with bigger numbers,
only I dont believe it will be as easy as it is now.
Try serving a sandwich to 47 friends at a party, and to do it for 2396
people. Organization changes, a lot.
And money will help a lot to provide bandwidth, hardware, and maybe also to
grant someone is looking at the service in the weekend, instead of going
flying.
So I cannot blame anybody for trying to rise some funds to cover costs.
I heard that Skylines is rising 10k euro too. So what's wrong? nobody is
getting rich anyway for this money!!!
Nobody is even covering the time costs dedicated to keeping up the service,
not to mention the software.

Concerning maps, on OLC there are also google maps available, so I dont see
the real difference.
It is not the maps making the difference with Skylines, I would say. That's
secondary.

paolo






"Dan Marotta" wrote in message ...

I use both...

I use OLC since the Albuquerque Soaring Club likes for us local guys to log
our flights to keep them in or near the top slot.

I use skylines because it has a **MUCH BETTER MAP** (are you listening,
OLC?) and it allows me to choose my units, i.e., knots and feet, and it
gives me a direct readout of flight time. One can also view two (perhaps
more) flights overlayed with each other. Finally, being open source, the
people are way more friendly.


"Romeozulu" wrote in message
...
Today on OLC there have been interesting comments from the OLC Team.

Basically OLC are complaining to all pilots for not supporting them and
paying the 10 Euros to get a smiley

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...l?dsId=3412529

Unfortunately this is in German, but I personally think it is disgraceful.

Surely it is up to the individual pilot to decide if he want to
voluntarily pay or not.

Strangely there have already been guys jump camp to the newly formed
Skylines.

https://www.skylines-project.org/flights/latest

These are also the guys that bring you XC Soar.
I am a neutral person in all this, never paid OLC, and never used
Skylines, but I will be interested to see where it all goes from here.