Re: For GNU benefit?

[Ali Al-Awami]

Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ali Al-Awami wrote: I was employees with a startup company that got out of IT business really fast, Beside 20 new IBM PCs one of the left over is Online dedicated server, Fedora Core2, 3GH CPU, 120 GB Hard disk, 500GB monthly traffic, very secure network availability 99.99% guaranteed ftpPro , apache, php, perl, python and mysql are installed For the last 2 months, the server was ideal, 10 months left (we got it for 1 year) Any suggestions how can I make GNU community make use of this? Tell the expiration date of the service. lots of projects would like to get their paws on it and/or other non-profits including the red-cross and what happens to the machines after the 10mon ?? - is there a buyout clause no, simply  left over - is it owned free and clear leased for 12 months - is there monthly lease payments no,  for the next 10 months where is the machines USA / Arizona / Scottsdale after seeing wht we've seen in the past... a better approach would be give devlopers free access to the resources ... and you/we continue the maitenance and backups and security etc, etc, etc who , how / most impotent it is only available for 10 months there's not a good reason to convert good *nix boxes back to crashing windoze or that it winds up in somebodys house instead of the original non-profit c ya alvin Thanks Ali