From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 19: 7:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thecore.com (thecore.com [206.136.149.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0BB37B69B for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (shaun@localhost) by thecore.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA47752; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:06:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:06:39 -0500 (EST) From: Shaun X-Sender: shaun@thecore.com To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who has been pissing Tucows off ? In-Reply-To: <20010131161513.Z62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:48:59PM +0000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > FreeBSD is mature enough to withstand and reply to inaccurate comments. > > Or is it to remain an esoteric market forever ? > > I've been thinking about tucows and the *BSD section (or the linux > section, but that is due to the different linux versions a little > more difficult to defend). > > Why is something like tucows needed for the windows-area? Because > there is no central managed repository for windows software. > download.net and tucows.com are just giant repositories in which > people dump their software and say "here it is". There is no checking > on it, there are no de-installation requirements, there is no > central place to which you can go and ask "he, I have a problem > with xyz version a.b, who has that also" before you go hassle the > author. Being one of the owners of Download.Net I can tell you that our site is more than a place for people to "dump their software..." We do install, configure and run the software before placing it on our server...and we get our fair share of, "Hey, I have a problem with xyz..." :-) but on to the point.... I think Tucows problem is that they attempted to get into something that was bigger than they had anticipated. The *BSD community is certainly much more vocal as to how its software is presented then the scores of windows programmers that are just happy to have their software featured or hosted on a Download.Net or Tucows. We had entertained the idea of hosting both Mac and U*ix software back when we were putting together the business model for Download.Net. It was quickly apparent that doing so would require us to multiply our staff by 5 times to stay current with both of these and as someone replying later here has stated, the banner hits for at least the U*ix section would not warrant the effort necessary to maintain it. As a side note...I lurk here because Download.Net runs exclusively and very reliably I might add, on FreeBSD. +-- http://www.download.net ------------- http://www.thecore.com --+ | Shaun M. Finn, CEO TechnoCore Communications, Inc. | | shaun@download.net Internet Web Services & Access | | VOICE: (732)928-7400 P.O. Box 106 | | FAX: (732)928-7402 Jackson, NJ 08527-0106 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message