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On 18-04-10 12:04:33, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> > Gentoo is a product, the Gentoo Foundation is a business. There are |
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> > many volunteer run orgs that are businesses. Maybe it's not the same |
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> > world wide? |
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> Careful here. "Business" generally means a for-profit entity and in this |
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> sense the Foundation is *not* a business. It is a not-for-profit |
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> corporation, run by trustees, elected by members. As a corporation, it has |
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> similar legal standing as a for-profit company, but operates with a |
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> different goal. Maybe this is what you meant. |
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Thanks, guess I used the wrong word there, that is what I meant. |
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> Its goal is not profit or to market a "product". Gentoo Linux is not a |
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> "product" and the scope of the Foundation does not need to be limited |
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> purely to Gentoo Linux, although clearly, this is the primary means of |
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> achieving its purpose. |
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Sure, I wasn't intending to limit us to just gentoo linux, it was one of |
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many. |
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> The Foundation does have a purpose, and that mission is to advance |
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> understanding and education of software technology, primarily via the |
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> open/free nature of Gentoo Linux, providing the public with control of and |
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> insight into the software they use, and source code. This is its mission, |
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> to serve the public in this way. There appears to be confusion regarding |
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> this mission. Think of all you have learned from being part of Gentoo, |
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> thanks to the nature of free software, and how many users have more |
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> influence/control over the software they run, due to giving them insight |
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> into how their technology works -- via USE variables, building from source, |
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> etc. These are all ways that Gentoo has allowed people to learn about |
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> technology and be active participants in their software ecosystem, rather |
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> than just being passive consumers of something someone else created. |
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Not here to debate that, but nice info in any case. |
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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |
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