I have thought about this for some time now. Actually, ever since this whole
 licensing issue came up. I have an idea that I would like to float past thi
s group
that, while it certainly won't solve all of the problems with regard to lice
nse it may, and I want to emphasis 'may' solve some of the problems.

I'm going to toss this out very loosly without passing along too much of my 
current thinking on it just to see where it goes.

My proposal is this:

A group of us create a 'co-op' to host FCS and FMS. We could use all of our 
'combined' licenses re-located onto a few servers to provide ourselves with 
our
own 'hosting service'.

The goal would be to give us better peak loading, better redundency, reduce 
our 'off peak load' costs of ownership and provide flexibility in the 'numbe
r of
connections versus bandwidth' arena that is causing all of us so much heartb
urn. We could also drastically reduce our (Internet) bandwidth costs for tho
se
of us hosting chats, streaming media etc. that are real bandwidth burners be
cause we would be purchasing our bandwidth in greater bulk.

This hosting concept might not necessarily be restricted to FCS/FMS but coul
d also be extended into future Open Source products that provide similar
features to FCS/FMS.

I realize this would be one of those 'committe run' things (and I am not ove
rly fond of them in general), but co-ops have worked pretty well in the past
 for
things like electricity, water, telephones etc.

Your thoughts please.

James Voss
Ultimate Web Forums



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