User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-3200944-20101001133733/@comment-168424-20101002062415

To clarify, when Monaco came out, many admins and users opposed some specific changes mostly around advertising, whereas Oasis is being opposed for a much larger variety of reasons.

Comparing the Monaco transition to the Oasis transition the way M.mendel did is a gross over-simplification. Not totally wrong, but misleading.