On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
[snip]
Linking to these websites from the Fedora download page would require that
the project page be a generic one like sf.net. Linking to random personal
webpages or commercial webprojects without getting explicit permission from
them. Bandwidth costs a huge amount. That is a liability. Linking to
particular mirrors is a bad idea too especially when they are overloaded
since the users wont be able to reach those webpages anyway.
[snip]
Redhat could have just mirrored the sha1sum.exe file itself to the Fedora
website. It is not huge (20 *Kbytes*) and is GPLed. Rather than trying to
get other people to mirror it on Redhat's behalf. Redhat would not have
even noticed the bandwith bump: The utility is smaller than the downloads
page itself with its images and stylesheets.
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Benjamin Franz
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