On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:45:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Caleb Tennis wrote: > This is an awesome GLEP idea, and I'm glad it finally got put into written > words. The one suggestion I have, which I am sure is up for a large amount > of criticism, is that I think Gentoo should charge a fee for the use of this > tree. This is, in my opinion, a premium service, and a I believe it should > come with a premium price, even if it's as low as 5 dollars per quarter.
I'll be interested to see what other folks say about that suggestion. I am personally opposed to it, but not for the same reasons that I think a lot of the other folks will be. I would hate to exclude certain key features of Gentoo Linux to those folks who can't/won't pay for them. I feel a stable tree is a key feature and charging for it would do more harm than good. A better idea might be to set up a number of private mirror servers and charge for access to them. Folks who wished to sign up for this service could get guaranteed access to files, better speeds because fewer people would be using the servers, etc. Updates would get pushed out to both types of servers (private and public) at the same time -- no favoratism would be shown. In other words, charge people for better performance, rather than additional features. That's the subject of an entirely different GLEP, however.
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