On Sunday 28. February 2010 11.30.32 Mark Kretschmann wrote: > They hosted Amarok for free, and so far I had assumed it was a free > service in general.
Free services are free because you can't go to them and demand better service if they are lacking. If Google lost all your mail you can't go to anyone and hold them responsible. Thats the price of free service. For most things thats fine. Its totally up to each individual to go with a free service or instead use a for-pay one. Most companies want accountability and thus choose the for-pay one. Its one of the main points of income for our profession. For KDE as a community to say "Hey, everyone, we'll start using kde.gitorious.org as our official home now" we can't just assume all of the members of KDE will think "free" is worth it. In other words; the responsible thing to do is to agree on some level of uptime, some level of support and that we don't get objections about the amount of traffic we generate. (which could very well violate any fair-use policies). In other words; its the responsible thing to do. I'm hoping that we can keep our schedule of moving KOffice there later this week. :) -- Thomas Zander _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
