Re: Ditching our mirror system for an inferior solution?

[floris v]

I wasn't even aware that SF now also hosts the executables downloads 
until somebody posted a question on the oooforum that he couldn't make 
it past the SourceForge start page - it turned out that he hadn't 
enabled Javascript for SF. I tried a download and my only gripe was that 
the download dialog box took a while to appear and in the meantime a 
download for some other program was eh, offered in a way that you  
couldn't overlook, so to speak, and that did, as it were, look like it 
was all you were going to get on that page. ;-) If that could be speeded 
up a bit, that would raze the only objection I have against the current 
procedure.
Honestly, while we are all volunteering our time and money (think of 
electricity bills) to contribute to the OOo project, it's up to each of 
us to decide how much time and money we're prepared to spend on it, but 
we aren't entitled to decide that for other people. I've downloaded a 
lot from SourceForge in the past and I don't object to them trying to at 
least cover the expenses of offering free downloads by advertising. With 
all the other commercial websites that offer OOo bundled with loads of 
suspicious other stuff that we get complaints about on the user forums 
SourceForge will be /one/ external download site that we /won't/ have to 
worry about.
Peter aka floris v