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William brings up a good point. I was thinking the same thing, but I |
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assumed there was a good reason things were leaning toward the SFC. I |
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agree that SPI seems to have the experience with larger projects, but |
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that's just my impression after 15 minutes of research. :) |
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For those that want to do some reading: |
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There was a short article on LWN a while ago about the SFC. |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/204870/ |
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and here's a discussion thread about SPI/SFC differences. |
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http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2007-September/002414.html |
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John Alberts |
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On Jan 18, 2008 4:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:15 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> > What happened to the SFLC? |
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> > Weren't we going to consider joinging the Software Freedom Law Center's |
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> > Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/)? |
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> > Yes, and the SFC was, and still is, interested (as of just a few days |
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> > ago, anyway), although they have some concerns about managing the legal |
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> > aspects of an entire distribution. (Gentoo would be larger, by far, |
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> > than any of their current member projects.) I still think that's the |
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> > right way to go |
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> snip... |
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> > I'd like to have all of this stuff sent to the SFC on Monday, |
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> > if at all possible. |
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> Does the SFC have adequate funding? Seemed like they were very tight on |
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> funds, and even if we had a our ducks in a row. All things per their |
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> list and likings. They have no $ for us. |
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> Much less if they have never managed an entity like that. Why are you so |
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> confident they can handle us and our problems? Not meant to be |
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> confrontational, just curious your thoughts there. |
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> Seems like them being new, lack of adequate funding, and lack of |
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> experience managing an entity like ours, much less our size. Seems like |
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> a very risky proposition. |
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> IMHO the SPI is WAY better. More established, been around longer. |
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> Manages Debian, used to do Gnome, etc. Likely has enough funding, surely |
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> enough experience, etc. |
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> Not to start a debate or etc. But minor discussion is cool. It's all |
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> meaningless short of informing all involved. I am sure the SFC or SPI is |
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> something that would be taken to a trustee vote or etc. So surely not |
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> decided upon here or now. |
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> Just wanted to weight out the pros and cons of the two. |
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> -- |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. |
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> Gentoo/amd64/Java |
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