[Kde-scm-interest] gitorious

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 28.02.2010, at 11:30, Mark Kretschmann wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I just want to let you know that we from the KDE e.V. board are in contact
>> with the gitorious guys to talk about a possible contract.
>> 
>> One of the most interesting points is of course the amount of money they want
>> from us to host KDE.
> 
> I'm a bit irritated now...
> 
> They hosted Amarok for free, and so far I had assumed it was a free
> service in general.


noting is for free. Especially not if several people work on this full time and want to make a living out of that. Servers and hosting also costs money.

Their business model seams to be to offer free services for smaller projects to make it popular and charge money from the big ones. 
Which is fair in general I think.

The numbers we already heard from them are huge. Let´s see what we can negotiate with them.


Frank


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Frank Karlitschek
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