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On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 20:40 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> I will say I was a bit rash in that conversation. Note that claiming |
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> you want to pay folks when |
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> you presently have no money sounds silly (and it still kind of does). |
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> Claiming you want to help the foundation make money because sometime |
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> in the nebulous future you want |
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> to be a more independent project is a bit more...well presented arguement? |
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> I don't recall you mentioning for instance, FreeBSD's success in asset |
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> management and distribution; certainly it |
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> helps make your point a bit clearer no? |
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Look I am not the board. I do not have to clarify every little detail to |
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ever person. Frankly I am very close to burn out on all this. |
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I have already private voiced to the trustees I will be stepping back |
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and assessing things. My letter of resignation might soon follow. If it |
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weren't for the obligation I feel toward those who voted for me. Despite |
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me saying in my manifesto, don't vote for me. |
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Much less my own interested in making sure Gentoo has a future. |
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> You may interpret it as selling; I do not. It is a 'you scratched our |
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> back and we will scratch yours' kind of deal. |
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Us paying GNi for their services monthly. Would scratch their back way |
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more than the ad does now. So basically GNi is giving is a massage, and |
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we tickle their feet in return. |
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Yes mighty fair, which is why we almost lost them. Still no one comments |
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on that :) Which still could come. And no one would be prepared for |
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that, and I can't even imagine the effect it would have on the project. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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