> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> >
> >
> > But you can reinvest the donations into Free Pascal.
> >
> > + You can buy hardware with donations. How can a port to some strange
> > hardware be made without that hardware?
> >
> Not required in most cases, there are already farms for OSS provided for
> free.
They are far from "free".
They are ad-infested ones which try to sell you other junk and push google ads
on you (why
not just pay for software, if you are going to have to support them in some
other clutsy
way like ads and a slow server?) where the SVN barely works and the site is
down 20
percent of the time for upgrades. Sourceforge works for hobby projects but not
serious
ones, as I've found out. The last few SVN commits I've done on sourceforge have
given me
all sorts of timeouts and connection breaks. And when I visit sourceforge my
browser
regulary crashes during important transmissions, such as importing an SVN gzip
backup
file, and it probably crashes because of all the ads they have on the site in
order to
support this so called "freedom". Sometimes the ads shoved in my face are so
annoying that
I'd rather just fork over $20 per month and have quality service, or pay $10
electricity a
month to run my own SVN server off my net connection (and maintain it, but if
it breaks at
least I have shell access to SVN, unlike sourceforge which only offers shell
access to the
file server, but not svn). (running a website is more intensive then SVN server
for a 1-10
developer SVN project).
The only way a real "free" server could ever exist, is if we had free solar
power/alcohol
power and free hardware foundations where people went to work for free and
extracted raw
materials as their "hobby" (cutting down trees is fun.. it's just a hobby.. and
running a
factory is fun, just a hobby), and maybe sugar/alcolhol powered servers where
farmers did
open source sugar farming. Sourceforge is not free. Oh yeah, and I'm really
sick and tired
of the excessive junk they try to push at the thinkgeeks store. Why are those
toys not
open source? Why do I have to pay for those, when the people who created those
toys should
be working in open source factories? The raw materials sitting on the earth are
free.
Extracting the raw materials is just a hobby, it's fun.
"But he's had no problems with sourceforge, I don't know what you are talking
about L505."
Good for him.
Complainer and Freedom Reality Checker,
L505
p.s. you get poor service at companies you pay for too, though. So it's not
neccessarily true that you get what you pay for. I've had several web hosts
with poor
connections/service too, which I paid a monthly fee for. That's even worse.
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