Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror

Posted by timothy on Friday June 25, 2010 @09:07PM from the this-is-our-business-model dept.

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."

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less for more by boog3r · 2010-06-25 21:13 · Score: 0, Troll

capitalism is grand. king quarter. year over year increase or die at home crying.

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Bigpond users == AOL users by EreIamJH · 2010-06-25 23:41 · Score: 0, Troll

so why trouble their poor little minds with actually even knowing they have a choice of ISP or OS.