Only I/US knows whether the sales of Xara have made it a profitable program to report but if you look at the amount of people that visit the forums, it would seem to me that the advertising potential alone with banners ads as they already do not make it a worthwhile venture. I notice the Banner ads they have running now are only related to I/US products or merchandise. Why not allow other companies to advertise which should easily pay for the cost of keeeping up the forums. Not that I want a dozen banner adds floating at the top of my screen but what they have now doesn't bother me.

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