Re: [LUG] Selling shells

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Hendry wrote:

by shells I take it you mean shell accounts,  perhaps lug members would 
be interested,  that would or should solve the problem of the wrong 
people getting access to a system,  secondly, as some are still at 
school any upper vi form going on to uni would perhaps find a shell 
account esp useful if doing computer science or other computer subject.

just an idea

paul

> I have a debian unstable machine on a very fast link [1]. It's my own
> built machine but the fixed price connectivity is costing me quite a
> bit. So I thought I would offer some shells on the market place.
>
> But is there a market place for shells?
>
> They are extremely useful. I use it for hosting my subversion repository
> as well my websites. But today most people just use a interface for
> hosting and what have you. I can just imagine warzers, spammers or at
> best irc bot people being only then interested. :/ Perhaps I should
> offer blog hosting or at least spell out what you can do with use cases.
> Hmmm, what do people want, that the big boys can't do. Perhaps use the
> shell to backup your mail ?
>
> Ideally I would want to attract cutting edge developers. A community as
> such, but no free software community expects to pay nowadays. Perhaps
> sponsorship is the key. But how the hell do you get a sponsor? Nothing
> seems tangible for a small scale online business.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> [1] http://natalian.org/archives/2004/06/29/debian-unstable-shells/
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