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Unfortunately, unless you offer them part of your hopeful $3billion, lawyers |
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don't move very fast. There have been a few emails since then that have |
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talked about NFP status. Afaik, it's progressing, but all the work is being |
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done by Daniel (who has many other things going on as well), and his lawyer |
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who is accepting very minimal pay (iirc). I'm sure it's not far off, and if |
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it isn't, well that's life. Not to sound patronizing or anything, but this is |
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a very large project to keep running, and to take care of business stuff, |
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etc. is all a very big job. |
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--Iggy |
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On Monday 02 February 2004 09:02 pm, Stroller wrote: |
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> On Feb 2, 2004, at 3:45 pm, Caleb Tennis wrote: |
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> > This is an awesome GLEP idea, and I'm glad it finally got put into |
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> > written |
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> > words. The one suggestion I have, which I am sure is up for a large |
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> > amount |
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> > of criticism, is that I think Gentoo should charge a fee for the use |
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> > of this |
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> > tree. This is, in my opinion, a premium service, and a I believe it |
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> > should |
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> > come with a premium price, even if it's as low as 5 dollars per |
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> > quarter. |
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> |
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> I hate to nag about this, or seem antagonistic, but it's now 7 months |
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> since the Zygot "fork" and controversy. drobbins made several |
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> statements during June / July / August of last year that suggested |
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> Gentoo would be pursuing a not-for-profit status, however in the last 6 |
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> months no evidence of legal moves to formalise this has been presented. |
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> |
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> I'll just feel a little more comfortable with the idea of premium-rate |
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> Gentoo subscriptions once Gentoo's status has been finalised. |
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> |
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> This posting is NOT intended as flamebait. I am just a user. |
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> |
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> I love Gentoo, it has taught me SO much in the last year - which seems |
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> to have rushed by so quickly since I've been using Gentoo - and I'd |
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> like all the developers to know that I owe them a debt of thanks for |
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> all their hard work on the project. I'm not particularly competent, and |
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> I don't know that I'll ever be able to contribute to Gentoo in the way |
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> that they have. |
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> |
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> I am sure that any latency on the move towards formal not-for-profit |
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> status is unintentional, and personally I don't think I'd mind if |
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> Gentoo announced it was it was going to become a commercial entity, |
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> because those that have contributed to Gentoo intellectually do deserve |
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> rewarding financially. I really value Gentoo for what it has given me |
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> but I guess I also value Free Software (tm), too, so I guess I'd just |
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> kinda like this cleared up, one way or the other. |
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> Stroller. |
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