[gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

[Duncan]

Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:47:22 -0800 as excerpted:

> On 18/11/2012 07:43, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
>> And, by the way, I doubt, that people "laugh" about eudev (previously
>> named udev-ng) creation. Mostly they just can't understand why gentoo
>> devs created third udev's fork, where it was already done (and
>> maintained) fork for LFS (somewhere on bitbucket)
>
> People _are_ laughing at it. On G+, on Twitter, I suppose identi.ca and
> IRC as well.

There's worse things than being laughed it.  In fact, what's the oft-used-
in-MS/Linux-context quote (Gandi if I'm not mistaken), something along 
the lines of...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then 
you win!

If they're laughing, they're beyond the ignore stage.  And we see 
evidence of the fight stage now too.  If the idea behind that quote is 
correct...

But regardless, there's quite some coding to do before we see.  
Meanwhile, it may fizzle out, or other events may overtake.  Anyway you 
look at it tho, things could be interesting.

But there's still worse things than being laughed at.  Gentoo continued 
in spite of the ricer rep it once had, and this project seems to be being 
blown WAY out of proportion in all KINDS of ways, but gentoo will still 
continue, regardless.

(All that said, the copyright/legal thing is a bit concerning, but it 
already seems to be on its way to being worked out, best I can tell, so 
it too seems to have been blown way out of proportion, tho it may well 
have been felt that was necessary in ordered to stress the gravity of the 
situation.  As many find out too late, legal isn't a laughing matter, but 
regardless, that angle /does/ appear to be being addressed.  The 
others... let them laugh.)

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