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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:16:45 +0100 |
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George Prowse <cokehabit@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> >> no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read |
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> >> on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that |
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> >> it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own |
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> >> developers. |
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> > Gentoo's always been exclusively for the developers. Nobody's |
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> > paying us to do this. It just so happens that the things we want to |
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> > do also benefit other people, and so they use them. |
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> That is possibly the most pathetic, misjudged and harmful (to Gentoo) |
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> post I have ever read. You should be ashamed. |
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Well, I'm not. I have no idea what you read, but it doesn't appear to |
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be what I wrote. |
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> Just because developers develop because they want to doesn't mean |
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> they dont want to be part of a community, if that wasn't the case |
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> then none of the current developers would have originally been part |
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> of the userbase to begin with. |
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What relevance does this have to anything I said? I wasn't addressing |
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anything about being part of communities; I was addressing the |
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motivation of volunteers contributing to Gentoo. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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