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Ok, I don't think that this is the place to discuss this. Gentoo is an |
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awesome distro and if you can't take that then go somewhere else. Quite |
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frankly, I am tired of seeing your posts litter this list. You should try |
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gentoo before making assumptions. My hat goes off to the developers for |
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the qaulity work they have done. |
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- -Chuck |
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David Herbert wrote: |
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> Thanks for the link but that doesn't cover it. It's not remotely |
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> convincing, Red Hat could say exactly the same about their distro, Red Hat's |
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> package management system is GPL'ed but they are still very clearly a |
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> company, very clearly a .com and it's obvious that their motives are |
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> different from Debian's who are very clearly a .org. The problem with |
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> gentoo is that it is far from clear where their motives lie. M$'s success |
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> was started by some stupid decisions made by IBM, which IBM have regreted |
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> and looked for ways of getting back at them ever since. IBM have their own |
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> vested interests in Linux which have nothing to do with morality. For IBM |
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> supporting the free software community is a means to an their own unpleasent |
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> ends. Gentoo 'appears' to have strong connections to IBM, which to me |
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> contradicts their .org status. These are some of many reasons why I think |
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> that if gentoo want to be a .org they need to explain who they are, hence |
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> the need for a social contract. |
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> Also if M$ was replaced with another company which behaved in exactly the |
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> same way as M$ behave now we would have achieved nothing. |
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> Regards, |
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> David Herbert. |
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> > Hi! |
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> > This question has been addressed previously. See |
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> > http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2001-May/004613.html |
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> > Note to Everyone: |
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> > |
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> > site:lists.gentoo.org <search term> |
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> > |
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> > typed in google is a wonderful way to search the mailing lists archive. |
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> > |
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> > tod -google, google google |
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> > |
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> > _______________________________________________ |
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> > gentoo-dev mailing list |
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> > gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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> > |
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> _______________________________________________ |
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> gentoo-dev mailing list |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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| Chuck Haines | |
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| WPI Class of 2005 | |
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| chaines@×××.edu | |
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