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Those take more time and money to set up, host, maintain, and use, than a single provider. Maybe more than it's worth to avoid occasional downtime.
by yamtaddle 4y ago
Those take more time and money to set up, host, maintain, and use, than a single provider. Maybe more than it's worth to avoid occasional downtime.
- dpkirchner 4y agoI think it's exactly this. We often see posts lamenting the lack of financial support for open source projects. How much more or less likely would it be for a mirror of a for-profit corporation's servers to receive financial support? How would they even reach out to potential sponsors without annoying users (ala donation requests in npm install output)?