Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror

An anonymous reader writes "Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, has decided to ditch its local mirrors of Linux and other open source operating systems, as well as various other open source software and Creative Commons media. BigPond posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services like download.com and Tucows. BigPond customers are not impressed by the move, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10GB or 25GB per month plans) and all downloads from this service did not count towards their monthly limits."

Comments

Re:News for nerds?

[deniable]

17, I remember when it was 19.

Re:The sad history of Australian Telecommunication

[AnonymousClown]

He was hired at a time that anyone with an American accent could get a CEO job in Australia.

Any particular American accent?

Southern: "Hi y'all! I rek'on I cane I run this company reaaall good! Bless your hearts!"

Black: "Yo homes. I'll get this bitch going on the slick, man."

Surfer: "Duuuuuuuude! I'd run this company, like, so, like, knarly, dude! Duuuuuuuuuuuuude!"

New York: "I'm hear to help uze gize. What the fuck are uze look'in at! You wanna piece of me!?"

Fargo: "Ya! I kan Run dis kompany. Ya - sur kan."

I'm only asking because I need a job and who knows, there may be still some Australian companies that haven't learned their lesson yet.