[Kirkwood]

Programmers demand high salaries and FR doesn't run on off-the-shelf code. You can't just hire someone off the street as support. Plus this is also full-time IT maintenance of servers as well as coding, so it is basically a double-salary position with 24-hour on-demand support. Good luck finding someone to do that job for less than $7K, especially if they live on the left coast.

[dinodino]

Give me a break. I run a software company and yes, we work in California. When was the last time you saw any changes to FreeRepublic? I haven’t seen any. I don’t believe for a minute that this site is actively maintained. Also, any one of my guys could fix this stupid Unicode error in a couple of hours.