TheVeech wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:17 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> Personally, I think this would be very difficult. A service such as >> Flickr must need huge resources for it to be successful (I mean in terms >> of hardware, the disk space alone must be fairly huge). Such resources >> do not come for free, so it either needs to be done by a company that is >> earning money else where or the service itself has to get an income from >> somewhere. > > I've said this before, but I wouldn't mind paying as a way of > contributing to something that's in our interests - I couldn't see it > happening without some contributions - but run like the projects, to > provide the best web-based services we can. But these are ideas without > purpose, because I wouldn't know where to begin! Many of these services are offered, at least in a limited form, for free and then the really useful service is charged for. But even that needs a sizeable initial investment to get going. Obviously possible, but way beyond my knowledge base! > BTW, IIRC, Google just uses bog standard Hard Drives. Yes, but thousands of them! > TBH, I haven't heard of anyone getting heated about this, but I've had > enough of the situation. All of 'em are just stuck in the food chain. > Flickr gets swallowed up by Yahoo!, Yahoo! is looking to being swallowed > up by MS, Roman Abramovich buys Pluto. Does he know it's not a planet any more:-) Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
