[Gllug] Faqs.org under threat

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Jan 3 14:26:33 UTC 2002


On 1/3/02, 11:23:11 AM, Kieran <kieran at esperi.demon.co.uk> wrote regarding 
[Gllug] Faqs.org under threat:


> The real "omega threat" would be sourceforge, of course.  Could you
> imagine the bandwidth bill that place has?  And could you imagine
> as situation where 30,000 projects all found themselves needing new web
> sites, ftp and anonymous cvs arrangements?

Several major projects (e.g. phpGroupWare) have already left Sourceforge 
because they don't like what VA Linux is doing.  Some have gone to 
Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org/), others are now doing their own 
hosting (the GhostScript team, for instance).

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Bruce

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