nanog mailing list archives
Re: Exodus Down
From: Marc MERLIN <marc_news () valinux com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:54:24 -0700
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 05:35:12PM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
What with VA Linux's financial woes, I'm worried about sourceforge.net/Andover in general.
If you read the announcement that was made this week, the part that says that Sourceforge is now a main product and focus should hopefully reassure you (and OSDN is pretty much self-sufficient in terms of revenue), so not much to fear here.
A large portion of the Internet's applications/utilities/OS development infrastructure has grown to revolve around these sites - we need to be thinking about what to do if the folks at VA Linux aren't able to continue their admirable support of these resources.
If the worst were to happen, and a few years down the road VA were to run out of cash before being profitable, I'm pretty sure that SF could be taken over by someone else, and of course all the projects are on ftp[1-x].sf.net sites which are mirrored already. Marc (not talking in any official capacity for VA or OSDN) -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f () merlins org for PGP key
Current thread:
- Re: Exodus Down Marc MERLIN (Jul 01)
- Re: Exodus Down Derek Balling (Jul 01)
- Re: Exodus Down David Howe (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down lucifer (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down David Howe (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down Christopher A. Woodfield (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down Derek Balling (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down lucifer (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down David Howe (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down David Howe (Jul 02)
- Re: Exodus Down Derek Balling (Jul 01)