On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Niklas wrote: > Have you concidered putting the ion-project on sourceforge so we can get > the daily ion via CVS?
This has been discussed n times before. Sourceforge is crap that is down half of the time you want to access it and whose download redirection system sucks big time. As for other similar services, I wouldn't want to move the distribution (and partially development) of Ion to US soil because of patents that may cover parts Ion and some other WMs as well. Also BerliOS (in Germany) terms of service the last time I read them mentioned that the software should not be covered by any patents. Although the Finnish law does not currently recognize software and algorithm patents, I don't know about the German situation and the EPO is as bad as USPTO: there is an EPO patent on the feature not mentioned above. Unfortunately a BSA-drafted EU software patent directive will most likely pass soon despite heavy opposition, if already hasn't, and the Finnish law will then also have to be changed to that draconian direction. After that, it doesn't really matter if I start using e.g. Savannah... someone should implement CVS on top of e.g. Freenet and UDP support for Freenet (to bypass certain firewalls). -- Tuomo
