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phoney my arse... these ethical questions need answering BEFORE installing |
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the OS, otherwise how would I be any different from everyone else who uses |
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m$? Gentoo could be owned by Microsoft for all I know, after all what |
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better way would there be for m$ to squash Linux than set up their own |
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distro? Does that sound stupid? Or would it be more stupid to just take it |
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on trust that Gentoo are the good guys? Answer my concerns and I will send |
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a very greatful email from my, yet to be installed, gentoo. |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Leo Lipelis" <aeoo@g.o> |
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To: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:58 AM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy |
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> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:59:07PM -0000, David Herbert wrote: |
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> |
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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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> --- |
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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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> --- |
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> |
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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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> |
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> --Leo Lipelis |
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