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[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bernd K. wrote:
> On 04.08.2012 13:29, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> 
>> The restriction is an *international* agreement, not limited to 
>> SourceForge or the USA. We should accept the weird political reasoning, 
> 
> No. Such nonsense should not be accepted by *anybody* because by
> accepting it you agree with it and nobody should ever agree with
> something like this. I vote for changing the hosting platform.

I'm not happy being indebted to SourceForge, but I'm neutral on any change.

The specific reason that I'm not happy is that a few years ago we had a 
very nasty situation in the UK where an American-owned colo handed a 
London-based server to an American enforcement/intelligence agency in 
contravention of UK law.

In practical terms, I'm not sure that somebody like Berlios would be 
significantly better. But at least the owners are in Europe, and taking 
into account extant treaties and conventions I'd trust the Germans over 
the Americans any day.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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