On: All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chas...

[blasdel]

StackExchange certainly doesn't make any money, and they've promised their customers that they'll have 45 days warning before they start charging.

Even then, almost none of their SE customers could afford the proposed fees based on their current income.

[johns → blasdel]

You confuse StackOverflow (the company with 3 employees and Joel as a founding partner) and StackExchange (a product of Fog Creek based on the SO code). StackExchange's revenue is less important than the revenue from StackOverflow which is currently derived from ads and the careers site.