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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:59:07PM -0000, David Herbert wrote: |
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> Call me paranoid but before putting effort into gentoo I would like to |
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> know more about who gentoo is. You're a .org but are you actually a |
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> charity? What is your relationship to gentoo.com? What is your |
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> relationship with IBM? I suppose I'm looking for a statement akin to |
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> debian's social contract, because at present any ethics (which to me |
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> is the whole point of linux) are only implied. |
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> Also it would be nice to have a global option (in /etc/make.conf ?) |
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> for allowing only GPL'ed software, GPL + other "open source" licences, |
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> or any licence - so the end user can decide. |
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> Regards, |
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> David Herbert. |
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You know, at first I thought you had a valid concern and I admired your |
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ethical stance. But after seeing this: |
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From: "David Herbert" <dsherbert@××××.com> |
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To: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 |
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy |
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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:59:07 -0000 |
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I just think you're a phoney. Sorry. I mean, at least you could boot |
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into GNU/Linux for 1 minute to send this silly email? Is that so |
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difficult? |
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--Leo Lipelis |
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