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read the URL's he pasted before asking this |
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-mike |
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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 21:15, Matt Thrailkill wrote: |
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> Why do all these spinoff companies keep getting made to work on what is |
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> supposed to be a meta-distribution? Why can't it all be kept unified |
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> under one umbrella? |
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> Why did you have to fork and found a company to target embedded and |
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> enterprise users and developers? |
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> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:08:55 -0700 |
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> Zach Welch <zwelch@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Fellow Gentooers, |
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> > I am proud to announce that The Zynot Foundation was registered today |
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> > as a 501.c.3 member controlled, non-profit organization in the state |
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> > of Oregon. This new entity is being established to hold a fork of the |
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> > Gentoo Linux distribution, targeting embedded and enterprise users and |
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> > developers. We will be establishing a new development culture |
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> > suitable for creating a reliable, validated, and production-ready |
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> > distribution - initially using the Gentoo technology we all have come |
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> > to know and love. |
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> > |
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> > While I am currently leading this effort, I have already attracted a |
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> > number of others willing to help me guide this project through its |
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> > initial growing pains. In the next couple of months, I expect this |
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> > project to evolve as truly community run organization, and we will be |
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> > drafting the foundation's bylaws out in the open, accepting input from |
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> > the community thoughout the entire process. |
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> > I humbly submit that every present or future Gentoo user, developer, |
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> > client, or investor should read my paper at the following URL. In |
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> > great detail, it describes the events that drove me to this current |
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> > state of affairs, the reasoning behind the fork (along with a section |
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> > covering the most current events), along with a brief glimpse at the |
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> > choices this fork will be offering the community that grows around it: |
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> > http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html |
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> > |
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> > and the following links has some initial questions answered about the |
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> > future and other ideas: |
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> > http://www.zynot.org/info/faq.html |
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> > |
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> > We are working to establish parallel infrastructure at Oregon State |
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> > University; however, my resources have been heavily invested in the |
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> > Gentoo project, both material and finacially, and many of the details |
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> > of those investments are documented in the above paper. My attornys |
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> > have sent a letter to Mr. Robbins requesting these investments be |
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> > returned. |
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> > For those that would speculate about the timing of this announcement, |
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> > my paper presents facts that suggest the recent re-organization post |
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> > by Daniel Robbins was a pre-emptive and unsuccessful attempt to |
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> > short-circuit this fork. Consider that fact along with the remaining |
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> > evidence presented in my paper as you read the inevitable damage and |
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> > spin control that follows this post. |
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> > I would like to invite Daniel Robbins to meet me at LinuxWorld |
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> > Expo, 2003, for a head-to-head public debate about the issues |
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> > surrounding this fork. The Zynot Foundation has registered booth #5 |
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> > in the .org pavillion, and we are looking forward to talking with |
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> > everyone then and there. In the meantime, come join us on IRC in |
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> > #zynot |
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> > or #zynot-dev on irc.freenode.net where there is sure to be lively |
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> > discussion. |
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> > |
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> > Finally, I would like to thank all of the users and developers that |
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> > have made Gentoo a wonderful technology, and I look forward to being |
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> > able to give something substantial back to the community with this new |
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> > distribution. Thank you for the memories. |
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> > Sincerely, |
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> > Zachary T Welch |
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> > Managing Member |
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> > Superlucidity Services |
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> > zwelch@×××××××××××××.net |
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> > |
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> > |
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