On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Ivan Chernyavsky wrote:

> Dear Gentoo developers,
>
> I am a grateful Gentoo user, I'm pretty happy with Gentoo and already have five
> installations of it, including one running a pilot project at my work.
> I started working with Linux 6 years ago and came through RH-SuSE-Ubuntu.
> None of them (except maybe SuSE 9.0 for some time) was perfect for me,
> until I tried Gentoo. So firstly, *thank a lot* guys.
>
> Recently I've subscribed to this list because I thought this is the right way
> to start being involved in Gentoo development process --- I thought technical
> discussions are of most importance here.
>
> But what do I see? For more than a week, I need to came through dozens of
> pure-fanatical e-mails having nothing except personal insults, FUD, idiotic
> wikipedia links etc. etc. I can't believe it was always like this. I really hope
> this is a temporary burst, caused by proposed EAPI change or something else,
> because it makes my plans of carefully introducing
> Gentoo as business-critical-ready-os to my employer much more complicated.
>
> Maybe it is time to create a list gentoo-flame or gentoo-fud and post everything
> there? I'm subscribed to several development and user mailing lists and I
> nowhere I saw anything like this, for so long period of time.
>
> Sorry if I don't understand something --- I'm really a new gentoo-dev reader,
> but I feel sorry for this brilliant distribution sinking in the darkness
> of FUD. Please please *do* stop it.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
>

++
Pretty much in the same situation and reading these emails for exactly
the same reasons for a month or so. 
I am not impressed and a bit sad.

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