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Ciaran McCreesh posted <20060105103628.316835af@××××××××.home>, excerpted |
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below, on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:36:28 +0000: |
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> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:26:03 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> | Anyone who thinks Gentoo isn't progressing simply isn't seeing the |
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> | forest for all the trees, as they say. Another way of putting it is |
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> | that Gentoo seems to be in that critical period after the honeymoon, |
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> | it has hit its middle-aged crisis. Reality has set in -- we're not |
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> | going to magically move mountains, as yes, a mountain /can/ be moved, |
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> | see the history of the Panama canal for instance, but it takes a |
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> | *LOT* of work, a LOT of investment, and sometimes even some deaths |
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> | along the way. During that time, progress may seem painfully slow, |
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> | yet it never-the-less occurs. What's the alternative, dumping the |
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> | project and leaving it for dead? Then all that work and investment, |
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> | and all those deaths, /will/ be in vain. |
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> What makes you think we're not moving mountains? Getting 1.4 out of the |
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> door was considered an amazing feat. Now we're doing the same thing |
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> every six months, and it's largely going unnoticed. Is something only |
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> an impressive accomplishment if it goes wrong and generates lots of |
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> mess first? |
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I guess I didn't put it too well, but that's what I meant -- that yeah, |
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the mountain DOES get moved (and it's us, well, you, and as a user and |
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bug filer as well as dev group follower, I count myself too, to some |
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extent), but it's FAR more work than some imagined, so naturally, they end |
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up rather disillusioned once the reality sinks in. |
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The fact is that's a natural part of any maturing relationship, marriage, |
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work, volunteer, the relationship on has with their state and nation... |
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It happens, and if the relationship survives past it, it then often |
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matures and grows into something far more valued than one could have |
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possibly imagined back in that fantasy that lead to the disillusionment. |
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... But I'm going off into philosophy and it seems some don't think that |
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belongs on the list, so I'll stop. |
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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 in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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