Ah, wow. Thanks. I'm definitely going to get behind this then [= Can you link me to the specific page on OpenCourSurfing where they describe how impractical it would be to make CouchSurfing free software?
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:30, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < [email protected]> wrote: > More reasons are at: > http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/a-criticism-of-couchsurfing-and-review-of-alternatives/#problems > > On OpenCouchSurfing it is described how it isn't trivial to make > CouchSurfing free software. And after all, the only real advantage I > currently see over BeWelcome is the size of the community - which we can all > help to change. > > > > > "sarvōdaya" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I can't decide to be happy or sad. On one hand, this is great, but on the >> other hand, CouchSurfing should be free software. IIRC, the only reason it >> isn't is because the people in charge are anarchists (which is great) *but* >> they are afraid of making their software free because it can then be >> exploited for profit. >> >> If anyone knows more, i'd love to know the details! >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:21, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I may be a little bit late to the party (to have it being used for the >>> conference), but for everyone of you over on CouchSurfing: >>> >>> BeWelcome is a free and open source alternative to that. It has way fewer >>> members but a great design - which are both reasons you should really check >>> it out at http://bewelcome.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> .sarvōdaya >> >> [𝄽#] The Silent Number >> http://thesilentnumber.me/ >> ☮♥Ⓐ >> > -- .sarvōdaya [𝄽#] The Silent Number http://thesilentnumber.me/ ☮♥Ⓐ
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