Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: The future of GNU Arch users

[James Blackwell]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> James Blackwell wrote:
> 
> >>>Thanks to things like the supermirror, you don't need to pay any
> >>>webhosting. The Supermirror supports baz today, but will support bzr in
> >>>the future.
> >>
> >>Can you elaborate on this feature a little bit? How does it work, and
> >>how does it allow me to host an archive at my ISP who provides me with
> >>some ftp/http storage?
> > 
> > 
> > It means that you don't need to use the cheap isp at all.
> 
> You should probably add "if you intend to host "Open Software". If I
> understand correctly, one of the conditions to have an archive mirrored
> is "That your archive only contains free software (ex. I don't have any
> proprietary stuff in my archive that will get James sued)"

Why would you distribute the sources to proprietary software? 

If you're writing proprietary software then presumibly you have an income
flow. If you have an income flow, then you can pay someone for hosting. :)

> 
> I have to use cheap ISP if any one of the following is true:
> - I want to host "non-free" SW
> - sourcecontrol.net goes down for whatever reason.
> 
> This is why I find it important feature of tla to have "dumb file
> servers" for storage.
> 
> 
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