Re: Dropline is off line !!

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:24 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 04:30 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
> > I just went to the dropline gnome website and it looks like they got
> > kicked off the server for not paying their bill.
> >
> > I'm trying to find out what's going on. I was going to install it on
> > another system.
> >
> > You can check them out at www.dropline.net
> >
> > This makes you think twice about using open source software for
> > business. If the project doesn't survive what do you do?
>
> Well now, imho, the reverse is true, if the project doesn't survive the
> code is available for anyone to try their hand at it.
>
> Maybe be more selective on the package repositories you use :) Seems to
> me good projects get mirrrored, try searching for a mirror ?
>
There still on sourceforge. The story I got was that they got
slashdoted. To much traffic.

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Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
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