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From: Daniel Armyr <daniel.armyr@××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] proposal: make gentoo-core publicly read-only
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:28:58
Message-Id: 20030628182654.54d19e5e.daniel.armyr@home.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] proposal: make gentoo-core publicly read-only by Todd Berman
1 > My point is just this, you want access to -core, become a developer,
2 > its part of the territory.
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4 Yeah, and if I want to know how my government makes descisions on how my life is run I can allways become a high-ranking politician. At this point in time, Gentoo simply does not have an open culture, but a closed one. I am fore an read-only core, but when reading this thread I have a nagging suspicion that this is pointless. The Gentoo devs want to have an ivory tower, and ivory towers can not be scaled. The only way to change is for the inhabitants to come out freely.
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6 > And I might be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure that many
7 > other non-profit Linux distributions have non-open lists. In fact, I
8 > would be very surprised if any Linux distributions don't.
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10 And since then was that an excuse? I thought Gentoo wanted to be better than other distros.
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