Re: Loadbearing services

2020-12-09 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This reminds me of an article from ESR. > > He pointed out that there are essential pieces we use everyday > > without any afterthought or payment. There are people who maintain > > software or services for free on their own time w

Re: Loadbearing services

2020-12-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This reminds me of an article from ESR. > He pointed out that there are essential pieces we use everyday > without any afterthought or payment. There are people who maintain > software or services for free on their own time we could not > live without. NTP comes to mind. I thing gnupg is basicall

Loadbearing services

2020-12-09 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:46:07AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:00:44PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > [...] > > > If something is free, you aren't the customer, you are the product. > > All generalizations suck. > This reminds me of an article from ESR. He