[Gllug] Faqs.org under threat

[Rich Walker]

In message <15412.17343.977924.528466 at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
          David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday, 3 Jan 2002, Kieran wrote:
> >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?

And, presumably, bandwidth...

> >A darwinist might suggest that this would be a good thing:
> 
> I can think of other reasons; sourceforge itself is not run with free
> software anymore, which is absurd - especially since the free software
> tools to do its job are perfectly good.

But there *is* a sourceforge package in debian/testing. Is it the
same one?


cheers,Rich.

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