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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:21 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 01:04 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> all the rest is viewed as a chore simply required for legal reasons. |
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>> we dont have people driving a "vision" or "goal" for Gentoo because it |
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>> simply isnt fun. |
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> Thats very short sighted because lots of hardware vendors have toys that |
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> would be fun to play with. However typically only RH and others get to |
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> play with those toys due to having relationships with vendors that |
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> Gentoo does not have. |
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*shrug* having new toys only goes so far |
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> That said Gentoo is all over GSoC, and Gentoo could be funding its own |
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> development just the same. Or doing things like Debian with Debconf. |
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> There is much more fun to be had, and way less drama with a proper |
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> structure. |
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i'd certainly agree that having the capability to pull off a Gentoo |
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conf would be cool |
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> Which is why I never wasted time drafting up such controversial |
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> proposals, that no one would care about other than to flame. Its pretty |
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> clear that no one has really cared since Daniel left and thats rather |
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> sad. |
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yes, Daniel certainly was a visionary. it's unfortunate that the |
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terms he put forth were so draconian. otherwise i'm certain he would |
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have been welcomed to take over the prez. |
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-mike |
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