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"One commenter on the Tr.im blog post suggested that perhaps the service could live on in the form of an open-source project" That was my favorite bit of the a
by jasonkester 17y ago
"One commenter on the Tr.im blog post suggested that perhaps the service could live on in the form of an open-source project"
That was my favorite bit of the article, ignoring the fact that URL Shorteners are all essentially open source already. (There are technologies that can put up a working version with a dozen lines of code.)
The humorous part was the assumption that "open source" is this magic concept that can fix anything. Got a service with crippling server and bandwith costs? Open source it so that... um... you can run it on the open source servers? Do they have those?
- ovi256 17y agoAnd on open-source electricity and bandwidth! And open-source sysadmins. This is how software meets the Real World, where finite resources are finite. I think what is actually meant is a volunteer community service. People could donate time, money or servers towards running the service. Tr.im seems like a good candidate, as it's an unfortunately critical service that simply holds your links hostage.