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On Monday 02 February 2004 18:26, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> I'll be interested to see what other folks say about that suggestion. I am |
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> personally opposed to it, but not for the same reasons that I think a lot |
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> of the other folks will be. |
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> I would hate to exclude certain key features of Gentoo Linux to those folks |
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> who can't/won't pay for them. I feel a stable tree is a key feature and |
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> charging for it would do more harm than good. |
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I agree with you and Jon on this, I don't think it would be wise to create |
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second class citizens. |
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Another worry would be actually alienating our sponsors. Currently much of our |
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infrastructure and all of our bandwidth is sponsored by third parties. Would |
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those third parties still want to sponsor us if we would charge for an |
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"enterprise" version of the distribution (thereby following into redhat's |
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footsteps (in the extreme))? |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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