Google!!
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-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Franz Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:37 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Fedora Download Page Useless
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote: [snip]
Linking to these websites from the Fedora download page would require that
the project page be a generic one like sf.net. Linking to random personal webpages or commercial webprojects without getting explicit permission
from
them. Bandwidth costs a huge amount. That is a liability. Linking to particular mirrors is a bad idea too especially when they are overloaded since the users wont be able to reach those webpages anyway.
[snip]
Redhat could have just mirrored the sha1sum.exe file itself to the Fedora website. It is not huge (20 *Kbytes*) and is GPLed. Rather than trying to get other people to mirror it on Redhat's behalf. Redhat would not have even noticed the bandwith bump: The utility is smaller than the downloads page itself with its images and stylesheets.