Wow so couldn't said security co's establish their own registry that we could point to instead and packages would only get updated after they reviewed and approved them?
I mean I'd prolly be okay paying yearly fee for access to such a registry.
As a co-founder of Starseed, owner of WebRing after Sage Weil, I wish I had more time to chime in on all of this. I will say the OP gets this wrong:
> Webring.org was purchased by an investment firm in 1997
We were not an investment firm - We were a scrappy startup that was housed in the same city as Sage and got to know him (as well as many other techies in the community) and had the opportunity to purchase WebRing from him at a time when he was ready pursue other interests.
Webring.com gets it more correct:
> In 1997, Weil sold WebRing to Starseed, Inc.
WebRing was awesome for its time - I personally did a lot to speed up the system that we purchased from Sage to help it keep scaling to the point where we could get acquired.
Tim Killeen, eventual owner of WebRing after Yahoo left it to die, did some great additions to the technology to help keep it relevant for several more years.
There's been a lot of discussions of small personal sites coming back into vogue recently - This gives me hope that something like WebRing could find value in the community again.
/side note:
I was onsite at GeoCities working to integrate WebRing into their system.
Literally, on my final day onsite and the when were to demo the integration, the company all-hands announcing the sale to Yahoo happened.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554715
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