[Savannah-hackers] Re: freesoftware.fsf.org: the issue that will not die

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

> > I would like to (at least briefly) reopen the discussion about using
> > another domain instead.  We noticed here at the office that the domains
> > "softwarefreedom.net" and "software-freedom.net" are not yet taken.  I
> > think this would be a good name for the savannah services we give to the
> > community.
> > We could, of course, let freesoftware.fsf.org still do a URL-rewrite to
> > "SOMETHING.softwarefreedom.net"; the URLs need not break.  The important
> > thing for me is for the URL bar to show something that won't lead people
> > to believe it is an official position of the FSF.

Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> wrote:

> The initials would be SF.net. We shouldnt do that.

That's a good point; I hadn't even noticed that.  OTOH, it might be an
interesting homage to the former days of SourceForge -- when it was
actually Free Software.


> Or maybe savannah.org (probably taken).

savannah.{org,net,com} are all taken.

savannah.to is not taken, if we happen to want to buy a domain from the
Republic of Tonga (they sell their domain name space to the worldwide
public).

> Is savannah.nongnu.org possible?

That is a good idea, too.  nongnu.org isn't taken.

> It's misleading to have non-gnu project with gnu (or fsf, anyway) within
> their urls and email address. But savannah is ok, I think.

I agree.  Then, we could rightly call the whole service "savannah", which
most people do anyway.


RMS, what do you think about this?

   -- bkuhn

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