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[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nagendra sez:

> have anybody tried to talked to PCQ or sombody who is pro-linux in
> india as I think PCQ spent more money sponsering the Linux section for
> the 2000 bangaloreit.com than getting a 2mb fiber leases line(12L?)
> :-)
>
> so how about somebody like PCQ/Chip sponsering a shared 2mb Pipe in
> bangalore/bombay for a FTP Server ? (on which most traffic will be
> upstream than downstream so useable for their browsing/downloading too)

Doesn't make sense - who would administer that? PCQ? Chip? We already
know that we don't have enough unity to trust ourselves with such a
task (and noone would trust us either) - remember linux.org.in?

How would one ensure that such a facility is not misused by the
maintainers? What kind of accountability could one ensure? And how?

Additionally, a 2 MB pipe???? That's pathetic! What you need is colocated
machines at VSNL/Satyam/whatever. Doesn't ILUG-Bombay have such a machine
dedicated to this purpose, complete with a nice fat 20 GB disk? Why not
use that?

If not, I'd suggest that we leave things like this (that are high
expense/high maintenance) to companies who can afford paying for the
facilities and paying people to maintain it, and would automatically
ensure that it is not misused. If it *is* misused, it is money out of
*their* pockets - a good incentive.

Naturally, all of you would consider this as flame-bait, but get
practical, and you'll understand what I mean.

Over to you, Raju - I know you are having withdrawal symptoms these
days... ;-)

Atul

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