<story><title>Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora&apos;s Mirrors</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steelframe</author><text>Something irks me about volunteers spending real money to support all the OSS freeloading businesses. I&amp;#x27;m talking about companies with a market cap in the $Billions. Almost none of them can be bothered to kick back even a modicum of financial support to the authors of the software that runs their business, and to add insult to injury, they in fact soak the members of community who distribute the binaries for their bandwidth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quaintdev</author><text>I wonder why Amazon did not create their own mirror. They would sync with Fedora mirrors once. All aws traffic can then go to their own mirrors.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that sensible thing to do?</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora&apos;s Mirrors</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steelframe</author><text>Something irks me about volunteers spending real money to support all the OSS freeloading businesses. I&amp;#x27;m talking about companies with a market cap in the $Billions. Almost none of them can be bothered to kick back even a modicum of financial support to the authors of the software that runs their business, and to add insult to injury, they in fact soak the members of community who distribute the binaries for their bandwidth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BSDobelix</author><text>How about just support community distributions? ...and no, Fedora is non of them.&lt;p&gt;Just stop support brand&amp;#x27;s and corporation&amp;#x27;s if you don&amp;#x27;t get paid?</text></comment>