Comment 4 for bug 102974
Revision history for this message
| Evan Boldt (echowarp) wrote A way to give back | #4 |
© 2004
Canonical Ltd.
•
Terms of use
•
Data privacy
•
Contact Launchpad Support
•
Blog
•
Careers
•
System status
•
0e1f616
(Get the code!)
I think it's a wonderful way for users to easily give back to Ubuntu. If nothing else, users that don't seed will generally still be donating a little bit of bandwidth. This could greatly help during release dates, which I'm sure would be crazy for their networks.
I only think of a couple reasons why they wouldn't encourage the use of the .torrent. Maybe it's because of some idealism, but it's (mostly) open source, right? Maybe it's for security, but it has checksumming, right?
Maybe one of those reasons is why they have the strange jigdo files. Maybe they should encourage the use of that?
Besides, Fedora has a very prominent link on their page, and I love donating idle bandwidth to seeding their huge DVD iso.