Hi, On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:02:51PM -0500, Craig Andrews wrote: > > > Is it going to be self hosted or using something like GitHub? > > > > Self hosted. Using non-free services to create free software makes me > > weep little tears of shame.
:-) One remark though: Doesn't identi.ca run on Amazon EC2? Doesn't anything provided by Amazon count as non-free service? I usually try to avoid being Amazon customer at all due to their patent policy: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991024 (SCNR) (Hey this was already nine years ago? Did Amazon change since then? To a better? Do they still litigate competitors where you can buy things with one click?) BTW: On the other hand I'm glad Evan uses EC2. Regarding the qualities it offers, it seems perfectly fitted for small web > 1.0 startups with unpredictable load demands. So I know identi.ca won't suffer under too much load. :-) > I'm really glad you feel this way - too few people do. I loathe the > closedness of sf.net, Google Code, github, etc. Don't know about github, but I contribute to projects hosted at SF and Google and I could puke because of both -- although Google Code feels much worse than SF, mostly because of their "one account for everthing" policy. Don't know about github. > There needs to be a Free Network Service for software repositories. > > Actually - what about Savannah? I haven't used it before, but it seems > like it could be good. http://savannah.nongnu.org/ repo.or.cz should be at the same level of "free" as Savannah: The software is available under GPLv2. See http://repo.or.cz/about.html Anyway, I fully support selfhosting and have full trust in Evan that he will be good at it. Otherwise he wouldn't be able run identi.ca without any big performance problems. ("big" as in "failwhale" ;-) Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/ _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
