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[Tom Trenka]

There's no disagreement about being at the mercy of other's goodwill; but
IMHO it's a bit easier to be at the mercy of other people's money than to be
at the mercies of other people's software.  A loss of funds can be dealt
with, even temporarily; having to completely redo a workflow because a key
piece of 3rd party software has either disappeared or had its terms change (
i.e. blackmail) is a different story in time and manpower (as well as
money).

trt

On 12/9/06, Alex Russell <alex at dojotoolkit.org> wrote:
>
> I'm actually going to have to dissent a bit here. We're *always* at the
> mercy of other's goodwill, but it the contributions of their code and
> time, bandwidth and hardware, or cash. Moving to a paid-for hosting
> situation might make us feel better about it, but that money's gonna
> come from someone's goodwill unless we decide to monetize the toolkit
> as an organization...something I think would require significant
> investigation.
>
> Regards
>
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 9:11 pm, Brian Douglas Skinner wrote:
> > Tom Trenka wrote:
> > > Nabble ... does not put it under the dojotoolkit.org domain name
> > >
> > > And it's third party software...  The recent purchase of Jot by
> > > Google--and the consequent need to move our server because of
> > > it--is just one example of what happens with software that is
> > > beyond our control
> > >
> > > In the very least we should start moving towards the idea of
> > > independence of infrastructure from the goodwill of others, no
> > > matter how well intentioned it is.
> >
> > +1
>
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