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Re: Another Non-Free Proposal



> > > There are tons of those already, many in wide use.  download.kde.org,
> > > backports.org, and the bunk backport collection all come to mind.  I don't
> > > see this as big stumbling block.

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:15:22PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Both of which represent far larger efforts than non-free.

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:42:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> So it should be trivial to do for non-free, right? If even those
> (moderatly sized) backports collections can be maintained.

Maintaining infrastructure has a constant cost (setting up and maintaining
the machines, letting people know where they are, ...) and some "per
package" costs.

The "per package" costs are, indeed, trivial.

-- 
Raul



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