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Originally Posted by jamesm
Thanks for the kind words. I think the point of the forum should be to facilitate the open sharing of information for the purpose of advancing the cause. That said, it's definitely not. It's a commercial enterprise, designed to make money for everyone except the folks who use it to try and gather information lol. Vendors don't come here to teach us anything, they come here to market products to their target audience. If that weren't the case and they were in fact here for the same reasons we are, we'd be about a year ahead of where we are now. Luckily, you can't stop the train. Once the floodgates open it's impossible to shut them again, and there will always be people here who are more interested in helping people solve problems than selling them something.
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Well said. I guess I live in the optimistic world where everyone goes to a message forum seeking information and providing information when they possess it. I do understand that the forum has an owner and vendors whose motivation is quite different, but they are the minority. We are the 99%.