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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo's policy on sender id
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:32:56
Message-Id: 413B7800.8010001@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo's policy on sender id by Chris Bainbridge
1 Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2 > On Sunday 05 September 2004 15:00, John Davis wrote:
3 >
4 >>Recent [1] announcements [2] from other large projects have prompted
5 >>this inquiry - should Gentoo adopt similar policies regarding Sender ID
6 >>and make a public statement or is it not worth our time?
7 >
8 >
9 > One of the things that I like about gentoo is the lack of deep politics. If
10 > someone is willing to maintain ebuild for packages that support sender id
11 > then why shouldn't gentoo host them? We already have stuff like vmware that
12 > is both patented and proprietary binary-only software.
13 >
14
15 Not that anything like this hasn't been done before (e.g. xorg-x11
16 replacing xfree soon).
17
18 Steve
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