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Re: Free DNS service & Dyn DNS



On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Adi Stav wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:38:56PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> In any case, the FSF never liked Sourceforge right from the start,
> as evident by Savannah, which goes back quite some time. I think
> they have more in disagreement than the current conditions of use.

Even if you fully trust VA-Linux's commitment to Sourceforge as a free
software development site (and it has contributed much, and still is)
there is a good reason to have different sites (like Savanah, but also
like BerliOS): with so many projects depending on SorceForge, it has
becaome a single point of failiure.

As commited as VA linux is to helping free software, it may run out of
cash some day, or be taken over by a hostile company.

BTW: I also don't exclude the option of a "hostile takeover" the board of
th FSF: suppose some lunatic will manage to convince enough of the FSF's
members that Savanah can only host BSD-licensed projects ;-)

I believe that the original mozivation to establish Savanah was this: to
avoid the single point of failure.

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