On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:03:17 +0200, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:08:47AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Csillag Tamas] > > > Because as far as I see titanpad is a propriatory sw that runs on > > > someones server. At the same time gobby is installed on debian > > > servers so we do not rely on a 3rd party. > > > > You should look closer, then. Etherpad is free software that can be > > installed on any server. Just use Google to find the source, if you > > do not believe it. > > > > Anyone else got a good explanation why Gobby is prefered over > > Etherpad? > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/BofHowTo#Why_not_etherpad.3F Additional reasons: * the infinoted server is local to our network, so if there is an upstream outage, we can still communicate locally * infinoted is packaged in debian and as a result is relatively simple to setup and maintain * etherpad is *not* trivial to setup, I've done it but it was a pain in the afro and the development is quite "balkanized" right now, so its not clear which was to go with it
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