[snip]
The fundamental problem is that all web sites have proprieters,
and all proprieters eventually lose interest, go away, die, etc.
It would be good if there were some way to "endow" an organization
to keep the flame alive despite being composed of individuals.
And there, the problem always seems to come down to money, even
though the non-love (personal time) parts of the cost are very
low to keep a site registered and online.
I'd guess that $200/year would do it, for gigs of online storage
and reasonable bandwidth limits. Put another way, as long as
there are 20 Apple afficionados willing to pony up $10/year,
plus their own efforts, something like this could continue
without interruption. (And if there ever get to be less than
20 such people, then the community can be officially considered
dead.)
-michael
Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
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