Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:10:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why no FreeBSD ftp site in India? Message-ID: <20031203141006.GB61355@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3FCD8549.7040908@users.sourceforge.net> References: <3FCD8549.7040908@users.sourceforge.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:40:09PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > A friend of mine from India is interested in changing from W$ to a unix > flavour. > I recommended FreeBSD, but then discovered that there's no ftp server > within India > for downloading the OS. Are there some legal issues there? > > India is the second largest populous country in the world with possibly the > highest > potential on software development. But not even one FreeBSD ftp server!! > > No one interested there to set up an ftp.in.FreeBSD.org server? > Or is the FreeBSD community in India simply too tiny? As you probably know, FreeBSD is a volunteer project. FTP mirrors appear when someone volunteers their time, machine resources and bandwidth to provide one. If there are no mirrors in a country, it is because there is currently no-one who has come forward to offer this service. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ze6+Wry0BWjoQKURAot2AKD6o7waXedKgOEuSlC1dsj6od1uxgCggFPu ls89v1xKLWFQ1d7MiWL9Z98= =0kfW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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