Re: [Savannah-users] http://savannah.nongnu.org/contact.php

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

The troll is strong in this one...

On 27 March 2012 01:05, Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:18:00 -0700, Bengt Richter <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> What is nongnu ??
>>
>> Funny that your contact address for this email in the mailto: link
>> on http://savannah.nongnu.org/contact.php is @gnu.org,
>> not @nongnu.org or some subdomain thereof.
>>
>> What's the significance of the nongnu distinction??
>
> There is software which is free (needless to say, given the
> context, in a "GNU compatible" way) but which is not part of
> the GNU project.
>
> Most programs start as part of the GNU project. The GNU
> project is absolutely desperate for anyone who can
> write anything that compiles, and so the bar is incredibly
> low. (Think: crud like GDB, bash, etc.)
>
> But as soon as these programs reach a low bug count,
> achieve user-friendly interfaces for interactive and
> programming use, and demonstrate pristinely clean,
> perspicuously transparent code base, GNU programs get
> promoted to the Non-GNU side.
>
> (Or wait, might I have that somewhat backwards?)
>
>> BTW. Note that you get to http://savannah.nongnu.org/
>> if you ping gnu.org and use the returned ip address in a browser like:
>
> Amazing, isn't it! Welcome to the 1990's, where we have multiple
> domains on one host. (And even multiple IP's on the same network
> interface, bah!)
>
> (Wanna rent one? $15.95 a month, 5 kilobytes of personal space,
> and you get yourdomain.com.meaningless-string.my-domain.com
> to promote your "brand" in a professional way! Wow, deal!)
>
> :)
>