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mail programs aside, i have similar questions to |
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Mr. Herbert. could a gentoo developer, or even the founder(s) |
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respond to his questions? there are a bunch of gentoo(-related?) |
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sites at gentoo.com and i'm also curious as to the relation(s) |
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between them and gentoo.org. i don't think a "social contract" |
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is absolutely necessary though the my concerns are still there. |
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i suppose that since the entire project is GPL'ed (if i'm not |
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mistaken), it seems to embrace the concerns of free software, |
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but will it remain that way? |
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If i had to compare this to the Debian social contract, i suppose |
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these concerns would address #1,4,5 (of the Debian social contract). |
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Somewhere in one of Daniel Robbins articles for IBM DeveloperWorks, |
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he mentions/rants about the third sentence of #2 "We will feed back |
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bug-fixes, improvements, user requests, etc. to the "upstream" |
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authors of software included in our system." (from the Debian social |
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contract). #3 seems to be covered by the bugzilla "bugs" section. |
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the relationship between gnu-style free software and gentoo is |
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(as Mr. Herbert mentions) suggested yet vague, though i'd still like to hear |
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a more definite/authoritative? statement from gentoo developers/founder(s). |
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thanks, |
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-r. |
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p.s. i still plan on trying it out anyway... ;) |
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