On September 12, 2021 10:01:20 PM UTC, Oregano <[email protected]>
wrote:
>September 12, 2021 3:19 AM, "Gunnar Wolf" <[email protected]> wrote:
here.
>>
>> But I understand you might have better preferences. Please provide me
>> the details for a web space you will sponsor and keep for several
>> years, and I will move raspi.debian.net there.
Gunnar: can i ask: I take it that you, personally, are not comfortable paying
for hosting bandwidth, out of your own personal funds, if the end-users who are
downloading images do not themselves offer you any financial compensation or
give you donations for doing so?
do you ever receive any such offers that would aid and assist in covering the
full cost of the hosting, or for your efforts in maintaining the server?
>I was not trying to insult you because of your host choice.
which i am sure he didn't take it as one.
> Rather to give you feedback from my experience.
which i am sure he appreciated.
>out three to five times minimum before displaying, which takes several
>minutes. You're free to take the feedback or ignore it.
i do have to point out that you're both mis-communicating, here.
Gunnar mentioned that you are free to provide an offer of an alterative hosting
service - AND PAY FOR IT (or find a long-term sponsor) as a very polite way of
saying, by omission and implication:
"you get what you pay for... and you haven't paid me anything"
in other words, he did not wish to risk annoying or insulting you by pointing
out that your report, which is perfectly valid and most appreciated, did *not
come with an offer to pay for improved service*
this is one of the rather embarrasing and uncomfortable aspects of Free
Software: the assumption that because it's Libre, it must also be monetarily
zero cost.
put plainly: hosting those images costs *real money*, for which someone has to
pay!
so please: if you find the service that Gunnar provides at no charge to
yourself to be inadequate for your needs, *pay him to improve it*!!!
[or, help him to find a sponsor willing to pay for better and long-term
service, as he suggested]
it's really that simple, folks!
l.
