[Kde-scm-interest] gitorious

[Matt Rogers]

On Sunday 28 February 2010 05:00:11 am Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

not to mention that there's nothing stopping us from hosting our own.
-- 
Matt