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Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> posted |
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20090504114734.3032916d@××××××××××××××.us, excerpted below, on Mon, 04 |
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May 2009 11:47:34 +0000: |
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> For what it's worth (probably not much) I think Foundation is |
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> functioning now. At least, we are legal again, have bylaws, and a real |
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> bank account. |
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I should have stated so directly, but FWIW I agree. I'm on the NFP list |
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as I have been since 2004 (when I started with Gentoo), so I know the |
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general status. |
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I did say I thought that was the low point and that Gentoo had turned the |
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corner since then, but given that I DID list it as a low point, it would |
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have been only proper to specifically mention that I think it has come |
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back from the brink (which it was over, but you guys pulled it back! =:^) |
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too. |
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So thanks for pointing that out, and thanks too, to you and the other |
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foundation folks, for all the time and effort you've put into pulling it |
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back from over the brink, as you have. That's no small thing, even if by |
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original design the foundation is separated enough from the day-to-day |
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and technical Gentoo side that it seldom comes up here or in most other |
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Gentoo discussions, and few enough even know about it, let alone stop to |
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say thanks once in awhile. It's certainly not every dev (or user, as I |
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am) that either has the skills for that sort of thing, or even cares |
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about it, so the least we can do is give you a round of thanks for taking |
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on what most of us would prefer not even to have to think about at all. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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