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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:51:39AM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> This is what I don't get. So what if Gentoo is an amoeba? Does it |
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> really matter? Would you rather that we dropped Gentoo/ALT, Hardened, |
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> Embedded, and anything else interesting just so we can focus on a "core |
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> technology" of some sort? Remember that we are not out to make money. |
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> We are a not-for-profit for a reason. We don't have to answer to |
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> investors and shareholders. |
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Gentoo will cease to be relevant if we continue as-is. Maybe not tomorrow |
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or next month, but within a couple of years, we'll be Just Another |
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Slackware. Personally, I don't want that. If other folks do, then that's |
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OK. |
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> I welcome you to fork Gentoo to do this. I'll be glad to assist you in |
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> any way that I can without giving up my ideas for where I want to take |
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> my projects within Gentoo. I respect that you should do the same, |
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> rather than hijack the distribution as a whole for your own purposes. |
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"my own purposes" are simply that Gentoo remains relevant. I think it has |
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some great ideas and a great core technology. I'd hate to see for all that |
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to be relegated to some hobbyist distro that people tinker around on but |
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nobody takes seriously. |
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Maybe you have a different vision for Gentoo. If so, I respect that, but |
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please don't accuse me of trying to hijack anything. I expressed an |
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opinion and you took my words and twisted them against me. This is a |
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perfect example of why Gentoo's never going to go anywhere. We fight too |
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much amongst ourselves. |
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--kurt |
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