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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> writes: |
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> Meanwhile, you might try googling Zynot. That was one early, perhaps the |
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> first, Gentoo fork. Such talk of cutthroat competition in a zero-sum |
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> game, of deliberately cutting off user options so they'd be forced to |
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> stick with you, of it can be us or them, not both, etc, was exactly the |
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> sort of thing they tried. That was 2002/2003 or so. While the events |
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> and acrimony surrounding that did ultimately drive Gentoo's founder |
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> (Daniel Robbins) elsewhere, Gentoo survived (thanks in part to drobbins' |
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> efforts to secure a good future for it even at heavy personal cost to |
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> himself and his family as he was already in the process of leaving). |
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> Gentoo's still here, but where is zynot today? |
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> I remember back in early 2004 as I was researching my switch to gentoo, |
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> reading up on zynot, which was at that time still a going concern, and |
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> repeatedly asking myself as I read the essays from zynot's founder |
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> heavily criticizing gentoo and its founder, why can't he see what's |
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> happening, that every single thing he's negatively pointing at in gentoo |
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> and drobbins he and zynot are doing themselves in far greater measure, |
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> and why he was so stuck on closed source competitive techniques in an |
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> open source world. His very essays, supposedly criticizing gentoo, |
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> instead ended up convincing me more than ever that gentoo was /exactly/ |
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> the right choice for me. =:^) |
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Wow... What a history! I am educated. Thanks for sharing. |
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I've always been interested in my distro's history. The information |
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scatters here and there. It'll be nice if some senior/retired developers |
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write up a Gentoo history on wiki.g.o :) |
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