Google!! :) -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Benjamin Franz Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:37 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Fedora Download Page Useless 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. -- Benjamin Franz Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. - Alan Kay -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
