On Sunday 28 February 2010 05:00:11 am Frank Karlitschek wrote: > On 28.02.2010, at 11:30, Mark Kretschmann wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitsc...@kde.org> wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I just want to let you know that we from the KDE e.V. board are in > >> contact with the gitorious guys to talk about a possible contract. > >> > >> One of the most interesting points is of course the amount of money they > >> want from us to host KDE. > > > > I'm a bit irritated now... > > > > They hosted Amarok for free, and so far I had assumed it was a free > > service in general. > > noting is for free. Especially not if several people work on this full time > and want to make a living out of that. Servers and hosting also costs > money. > > Their business model seams to be to offer free services for smaller > projects to make it popular and charge money from the big ones. Which is > fair in general I think. > > The numbers we already heard from them are huge. Let´s see what we can > negotiate with them. > > > Frank > >
not to mention that there's nothing stopping us from hosting our own. -- Matt _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list Kde-scm-interest@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
