The Internet and the availability of information,
connections to other people, etc is NOT free.
Would it be better if the forum was gone because
Yann didn't make money to keep it up?  Or if
all of the mailing lists went down because there
was no money to keep the servers up?

Your childish personal attacks at Yann's 
enterprise just because you are angry at him
for taking a side (although I see nothing wrong
with his earlier posts - he was being neutral and
just pointing out facts/reasons) don't make me
feel stronger for your side of the argument.

And no, this is not a "kiss-up".  I haven't 
ordered
anying from Animanga in eons, and have no reason
to stroke Yann's ego.  I simply chose to state
my opinion (and, as adults, shouldn't we all be
able to do so without resulting to name calling
and taking shots?)