The kind folks at Ibiblio provide hosting at no cost. Hosting content in the public interest is in Ibiblio's mandate. And there's a history of Ibiblio hosting open source software. In the mid 1990s, Ibiblio was called SUNSITE at UNC and was one of two key Linux software repositories. The other was tsx11 at MIT. (That's at a time when "Linux programs" were just Unix programs recompiled from source.)
When I announced FreeDOS, I reached out to SUNSITE and asked if they would create a similar folder for FreeDOS stuff. They obliged, since it was similar to Linux. But we didn't get a top level directory like /pub/Linux which is why FreeDOS is located deep in /pub Our hosting at SourceForge is also provided for free. SF provides our email lists, bug tracker, wiki, and a few other things. I pay for everything else out of pocket. Website hosting, bandwidth, etc. Our traffic loads aren't when they once were (but still high, higher than some Linux distros) so it's not too expensive. There's a Patreon or PayPal if you want to contribute; that's also how I dedicate time away from consulting to work on a few things (website update, wiki, bugs, other stuff). Jim On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, 7:28 PM <mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > How are the repositories on ibiblio paid for? Freedos is free, and much of > the programming work is done on a voluntary basis. > Freedos is predominantly open source if not completely so. ReactOS is > supported by a company that pays for the infrastructure > to host the source code, a web site, some of the programming, etcetera. > ReactOS is free to download and under the GPL 100% > I believe. Could something similar be done for freedos? Could a person be > trained and paid a modest salary to work on memory > management for example, in the US $15/hour is modest for programming. I am > willing to work on freedos for a low salary and have > my code released under the GPL. If I were wealthy, I'd do the work for > free. > > Freedos for a hobbyist project is in incredibly good shape. I would like > to see this become an excellent dos, better than MSDOS, > and sought after by industry for systems that currently require msdos. > Everyone who has worked to make freedos what it is, pat > yourselves on the back for a job well done. I want freedos to go further > in terms of quality and become the most stable dos on the > planet that is the most compatible dos with everything dos that is worth > being compatible with. > > -- Michael C. Robinson > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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