Forgive the ignorant question, but what exactly is wrong with Sourceforge again?
I've had issues with them hosting SVN/CVS before, and I don't agree with all of their policies.. But it seems like high-bandwidth file hosting is what they do best... It may be worth looking into again. Another choice is talking with archive.org -Colin Ian Clarke wrote: > On 26 Jan 2006, at 11:38, Guido Winkelmann wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 20:29 schrieb Ian Clarke: >>> On 26 Jan 2006, at 10:59, Joel Salomon wrote: >> [...] >>>> Bittorrent? >>> >>> Requiring the user to download a P2P app in order to get our P2P app >>> is a bit silly, by that argument we may as well use Dijjer. >> >> Well, bittorrent is pretty much standard for many people by now. > > I don't know what percentage of computer users have BitTorrent, but many > don't. > >> Also, >> bittorrent doesn't need to be run 24/7 to make best use of it, so it >> isn't as >> such in "competition" with Freenet. > > Its not about being in competition with Freenet, its about the > convenience of allowing people to obtain Freenet. We need to ensure > that there are as few obstacles in the way as possible. BitTorrent > would be an unnecessary obstacle to adoption. > > The vast majority of other free software projects manage to allow people > to do direct downloads of their software from a websites, which is far > more convenient than downloading from BitTorrent, there is no good > reason why we can't either. > > Ian. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
