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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:14:38 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
To:        Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, jgh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX in bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <666152AB4483DEBB619367C0@utd71538.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CADLo838XMx3jeJFxMP5Ej007Vmi0bX2i%2BhhGv7zzjObfn-08LQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20120116201117.GA90568@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> <4f15924a.7CUoXdl4yduNUIqM%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <CADLo838XMx3jeJFxMP5Ej007Vmi0bX2i%2BhhGv7zzjObfn-08LQ@mail.gmail.com>

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--On January 18, 2012 9:09:10 PM +0000 Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I worry about the ethics of 'stealing' Fedora's bandwidth with other
> people's ports; we should only be using their mirrors if it's explicitly
> developed by Fedora.
>

I'm not sure I follow.  If Fedora is making an rpm available for download, 
how is it "stealing" their bandwidth to download the rpm from there? 
Wouldn't be equally "stealing" to download it from anywhere else?

-- 
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
*******************************************
"It is as useless to argue with those who have
renounced the use of reason as to administer
medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very
intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell




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