Gregory Maxwell a écrit:
On 6/24/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
A little announcement by Lilo, the director of PDPC and the head of staff of freenode. For those who do not know... Freenode is ... our irc service...
I'd think we'd be better off if people on this list donated first to wikipedia. Freenode is a nice project but wikipedia provides something quite unique. We already have to run our own IRC servers for recent changes...
A couple of citations (I hope their authors do not mind me putting them here, I perceive they should not be misinterpretated)
JeLuF: running irc servers for RC and running a real network for users are two different stories.
brion: i don't think there would be any benefit to running our own irc for discussion.
brion: it's extra work, extra both, extra worrying about managing it and crapflooders and DoSers and yadda yadda yadda
In short, we dedicate another organisation to take care of a tool which has become essential to us. I think this is fair to help them... just as readers think we are an essential tool and support us.
'nuff on the topic. You want to help, you do. You do not want to help, you do not. Simple and light like air :-)
Ant