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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:55:50PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> I'd like Gentoo to be a place where neat things are developed. |
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> If RH or SuSE (or another for-profit Linux vendor) wants to take some |
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> of those developments and use them to make a profit, that's fine with |
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> me. We're over here having fun. |
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I second this. That's why I joined... |
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> Also I find it amusing when people say that Gentoo exists for the |
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> users. I think that is wrong. Gentoo exists for the *developers*. |
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> It's our playground, and it's the reason we use a live tree rather |
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> than switching to an actually sane approach. The users are cool |
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> because they point out bugs, help solve problems on bugzilla, suggest |
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> enhancements, provide patches, and notify us of package updates. |
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> Sometimes they become developers. But the truth is that Gentoo sees |
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> improvement and maintenance in the areas that appeal to the |
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> developers. And that is why Gentoo exists for the developers first, |
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> the users second. |
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Heh, I like this too. |
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One thing that people might want to remember, if Gentoo ever changes |
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into a "real, we take your money for support" type of distro, a lot of |
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the employers of the us developers might reconsider allowing them to |
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participate. Which would pretty much suck... |
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Aron, thanks for writing this up, I enjoyed it. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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p.s. And yes, Gentoo is used for a "base" distro all over the place, and |
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that's great. Lots of embedded people like it, and even the nitwits at |
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OSDL are using it for their "Linux Reference Platform" or whatever they |
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are calling it these days... |
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