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The original purpose of the NFP organization, as I understand it, is to 
protect Gentoo from becoming a corporate entity.  That is it.  People were 
afraid of someone running away and making money off of their contributions.  
And I think that the corporate-protective NFP is what the development 
community wants.  The purpose right now should not be to make money or try 
and support x number of developers financially, as (almost) everyone is 
working happily within their own capacities right now.  Development should 
continue as it has been, because while there are quirks and problems, as a 
whole it works, or else we wouldn't have such a kick ass distribution.

Keep the focus on protecting Gentoo from corporate ties.   Let the developers 
continue to do their work the way they are currently doing it.  I know there 
is a concern about lack of QA and R&D, but as Gentoo gains popularity and 
more people (and organizations) jump on board, there will be resources to 
fill those roles just as there have been resources to create ebuilds.

Basically, I think that the corporate ties issue should be solved first.  The 
resource issue is new and needs to be tackled later, as the NFP has been in 
limbo too long..

Cheers!

- -Corey

On Monday 12 April 2004 07:39 pm, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Here is a very short summary of the NFP progress so far:

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