On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 20:59:02 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 08:33 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> 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. Yeah, that's why I wrote, "not small", versus things like the "global disaster", I've gotten elsewhere, > 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? I kinda figured that was covered by the "not immune to external forces", especially given the previous poster's reference to large companies changing due to business model changes and acquisitions. > Sites shutting down we can handle. Becoming dependent on a site that > goes through a, well, reorganization is my big worry. Agreed, but I'll quietly note that should Google fry, it holds the only consolidated Usenet archive on the planet. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
