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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Which of the following do you think is most likely to happen? |
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> * That Gentoo relicences everything under a proprietary licence |
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GPL-3 you mean? |
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> * That Gentoo colludes with Lucifer |
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Cough... |
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> * That Gentoo comes under pressure from a sponsor with an agenda |
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> Remember that several archs rely upon hardware donations from sponsors. |
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> What would happen if some of those sponsors said "we'll stop giving you |
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> the kit you need unless you agree not to support $chinese_cloned_cpu"? |
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That either the former sponsor won't support you because you aren't |
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supporting him and the $chinese_cloned_cpu manufacturer will sponsor you |
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or you get something back from this sponsor so you can make up for the |
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missed opportunity with the other vendor. |
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It's pretty much that. Whoever provides the toys for us to play could |
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ask something back, if one of the 2 parties isn't happy you can find |
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others to play with... |
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Obviously you may have other reasons to help one of the two parties. |
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That proposal about the social contract won't change that. |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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