OLC needs money, or is this just poor marketing?

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:03:48 AM UTC+1, John Galloway wrote:
At 22:01 29 October 2013, Max Kellermann wrote:



The OLC doesn't need your support. It's a commercial company,

and it gets

plenty of money from sponsors. This campaign is a ridiculous

attempt to

make even more money.



Remember, you're not OLC's customer - you're their product.

(Same with

Google, Facebook etc.)







Are you saying that the description on the OLC website is not a

true representation of their organisation?



http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...zene/cms.html?

url=olcorganisation



John Galloway

I think the comment is just a bad marketing move. Based on their website information they are using this extra money to support the hardware to prevent becoming a victim of their own success.
As for the German text - Google translate helps ;-)

Should we pay that money or not? If you're using OLC a lot and flying 50.000USD/EUR+ material then what are we talking about?
This is almost like the complaints i see about the planned (?) yearly fee of 1 USD for Whatsapp. What is wrong for asking a tiny bit of money for a service that you choose to use?