Re: [gentoo-dev] FORK: The Time Is Now

[Matt Thrailkill]

Why do all these spinoff companies keep getting made to work on what is
supposed to be a meta-distribution?  Why can't it all be kept unified
under one umbrella?

Why did you have to fork and found a company to target embedded and
enterprise users and developers?

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:08:55 -0700
Zach Welch <zwelch@g.o> wrote:

> Fellow Gentooers,
>
> I am proud to announce that The Zynot Foundation was registered today
> as a 501.c.3 member controlled, non-profit organization in the state
> of Oregon.  This new entity is being established to hold a fork of the
> Gentoo Linux distribution, targeting embedded and enterprise users and
> developers.  We will be establishing a new development culture
> suitable for creating a reliable, validated, and production-ready
> distribution - initially using the Gentoo technology we all have come
> to know and love.
>
> While I am currently leading this effort, I have already attracted a
> number of others willing to help me guide this project through its
> initial growing pains.  In the next couple of months, I expect this
> project to evolve as truly community run organization, and we will be
> drafting the foundation's bylaws out in the open, accepting input from
> the community thoughout the entire process.
>
> I humbly submit that every present or future Gentoo user, developer,
> client, or investor should read my paper at the following URL.  In
> great detail, it describes the events that drove me to this current
> state of affairs, the reasoning behind the fork (along with a section
> covering the most current events), along with a brief glimpse at the
> choices this fork will be offering the community that grows around it:
>
> http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html
>
> and the following links has some initial questions answered about the
> future and other ideas:
>
> http://www.zynot.org/info/faq.html
>
> We are working to establish parallel infrastructure at Oregon State
> University; however, my resources have been heavily invested in the
> Gentoo project, both material and finacially, and many of the details
> of those investments are documented in the above paper.  My attornys
> have sent a letter to Mr. Robbins requesting these investments be
> returned.
>
> For those that would speculate about the timing of this announcement,
> my paper presents facts that suggest the recent re-organization post
> by Daniel Robbins was a pre-emptive and unsuccessful attempt to
> short-circuit this fork.  Consider that fact along with the remaining
> evidence presented in my paper as you read the inevitable damage and
> spin control that follows this post.
>
> I would like to invite Daniel Robbins to meet me at LinuxWorld
> Expo, 2003, for a head-to-head public debate about the issues
> surrounding this fork.  The Zynot Foundation has registered booth #5
> in the .org pavillion, and we are looking forward to talking with
> everyone then and there.  In the meantime, come join us on IRC in
> #zynot
> or #zynot-dev on irc.freenode.net where there is sure to be lively
> discussion.
>
> Finally, I would like to thank all of the users and developers that
> have made Gentoo a wonderful technology, and I look forward to being
> able to give something substantial back to the community with this new
> distribution.  Thank you for the memories.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Zachary T Welch
> Managing Member
> Superlucidity Services
> zwelch@×××××××××××××.net
>
>
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