On 06/12/2009 06:21 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pemboa@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Fernando Cassia<fcassia@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:fcassia@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
This isn't a free, infinite resource.
If you follow the discussion tree you´ll see that the discussion
quickly morphed in all sort of excuses against DeltaRPMs like "my
repository doesn´t implement it so it negates any benefits, switching
to another compression may be better" or that "why don´t we offload
cpu usage to the repos" (ridiculous, if someone agrees to host a
repository they´re already contributing their bandwidth and ftp/http
server, it´s the distros creator´s job to actually, gee, create the RPMs).
FC
As Arthur said this is not a free resource. Someone has to pay for those
cpu cycles and the network bandwidth. I still remember wayyyyyy back
when Red Hat the company was building the Red Hat Network -- some here
may remember it. RHN is still in use but I suspect it is devoted
entirely to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss customers. I actually
bought a subscription to RHN back then, which for a short time I could
use for Red Hat Linux updates. But that download pipe was turned off and
my subscription I think was refunded on a prorated basis.
I don't know how Fedora pays for all the costs of providing updates, I
never looked too closely at the funding aspects in fact. But someone out
there is shelling out big money for this. Someone is paying salaries,
infrastructure, office space, and more. That is the reality of it. And
if the donors involved are feeling the economic pinch, they might just
give less in the way of funding.
In fact I'm quite surprised that Fedora hasn't implemented a paid
subscription system for release downloads and release updates similar to
RHN. I know that people interested in downloading the new Eclipse
Galileo version can pay $30 to a different group of people to get early
preferential download access to Galileo. Someone paid for the expensive
hardware and bandwidth to provide premium service with.
Bob Cochran
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