Perens Launches 'OpenSourceParking'

miller60 writes "Open source evangelist Bruce Perens has launched OpenSourceParking, a service designed to boost domain parking on open source software. The project is a response to a large gain by Microsoft in the April Netcraft survey, with Windows' share jumping 5 percent as domain registrar Go Daddy moved 4.5 million parked domains from Linux to Windows Server 2003. To regain that share, Perens is calling on open source users to park undeveloped domains at OpenSourceParking, with the advertising revenue being used to fund political advocacy efforts on behalf of open source software. Parking-for-profit has grown into a significant business in recent years. Despite ambivalence over the value of these sites, Perens appears to believe it merits a focused effort for the open source community."

Comments

Re:Don't.

[LiquidCoooled]

How do you get an Under Construction sign without actual hosting?

Bruce has setup a service to allow your open source project to have an Open Source under construction sign.

And yet

[way2trivial]

their attitude is quite the oppopsite

http://www.google.com/domainpark/

Mebbe they aren't 'perfect' after all.

Re:Let's hope it's as successful as his UserLinux

[10Ghz]

"The point is that IIS came from 0% to 25% in 5 years, and is still growing."

Uh, apart from this blib in the radar, IIS has been pretty stable at around 20% since october 2003 (and before that date, IIS's share was DROPPING). And if you look at stats at Netcraft, you will see that IIS made an entry to the list back in 1996. So it's 10 years, not 5. In about 18 months, IIS rose to about 20% and now, over EIGHT years later, it's STILL at that 20%!

Oh, be still my beating heart!