On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 08:33 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
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> If/when VA folds or pulls most/all the support for SF the cumulative
> effect on the hosted projects and mailing lists will not be small.
I've actually heard strong alternative views. Yes, SourceForge is a
strong central location for all of this, but almost all significant
projects hosted by SF also have some non-local hosting place as well. A
loss of SourceForge would create chaos, but most projects would move
forward after they could tie themselves back together.
I thought you were headed in a different direction. I'm actually amazed
you didn't bring it up. What if Google sets all of that up for lists
and runs it for a year or two, and life is wonderful -- and then Google
gets bought by AOL/Time-Warner? or some other mega-group? And they
change the privacy and usage rules?
Sites shutting down we can handle. Becoming dependent on a site that
goes through a, well, reorganization is my big worry.
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