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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Peck Dickens (<A HREF="mailto:peck_d@bellsouth.net?Subject=Re:%20[snapscan]%20Sourceforge%20request%20submitted&In-Reply-To=&lt;00101419483005.11069@wildthing.isi.com&gt;"><EM>peck_d@bellsouth.net</EM></A>)<BR>
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote:
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<EM>&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:28:00 +0800, Petter Reinholdtsen &lt;<A HREF="mailto:pere@hungry.com?Subject=Re:%20[snapscan]%20Sourceforge%20request%20submitted&In-Reply-To=&lt;00101419483005.11069@wildthing.isi.com&gt;">pere@hungry.com</A>&gt; said:
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; Petter&gt; Parhaps we should do the same for the SANE project itself?
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<EM>&gt; Petter&gt; It would give us a working bug tracking and a patch manager
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; Petter&gt; system. I do not think we want to use some of the other
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; Petter&gt; features. (Parhaps the CVS repository, but the Hungry
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<EM>&gt; Petter&gt; Programmers one works just fine. :-)
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; In my opinion, it's a mistake to collect all open source projects in a
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<EM>&gt; single place. A uniform directory a la Freshmeat is a great idea, but
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<EM>&gt; sourceforge worries me because it represents a single point of
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<EM>&gt; failure. &quot;Failure&quot; here could mean anything from denial of service
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<EM>&gt; attacks, polluting source code with nasty viruses, bankruptcy of the
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; sponsor, or hostile takeover of the sponsor by another company. Yeah,
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; all of this is possible with pretty much any other site as well, but
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<EM>&gt; the more projects are hosted in a single place, the more worthwhile a
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<EM>&gt; target it becomes.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; Diversity is good and perhaps best way to make a complex ecological
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<EM>&gt; system robust.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; --david
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<P>This is interesting... I *never* considered an attack of sourceforge as
<BR>
something a cracker might consider. Facts be known, open source
<BR>
projects are scattered all over the web... Tens of thousands of places besides
<BR>
sourceforge. However, sourceforge is probably the most high profile of all
<BR>
the repositories. Considering all real open source developers keep a copy of
<BR>
their work such an attack would slow the process (And piss people off...), but I
<BR>
seriously doubt anything major would be lost. Plus, I bet sourceforge archives
<BR>
at least twice daily. Also, I would not want to be the person that crashed sourceforge...
<BR>
You would have some of the brightest minds on the web after you... Prison would be
<BR>
an inevitiable reality. Your next roommate would be some nasty dude named
<BR>
&quot;Bubba&quot; who is looking for some affection... And he finds you attactive.
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<P>However, What does sourceforge offer us at this point anyway...?... I see no
<BR>
advantage.
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