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On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 11:29 -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> wrt to generation of revenue |
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Here's why it will never fly with me. Gentoo is not about revenue. |
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Changing it to be so would kill the spirit of freedom. No matter what |
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you might think, if we *have* to come up with a certain amount of money |
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to make payroll, it'll mean changing what we do specifically to ensure |
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revenue. Anything that requires us to secure a specific amount of |
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revenue on a recurring scale will likely cause things to move in the |
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wrong direction. Were Gentoo to move in this direction, I would quit |
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immediately. |
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You've also completely glossed over the simple fact that we are |
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incapable of administrating ourselves. The Gentoo Foundation and its |
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trustees are a failed experiment. In four years, we've gotten nothing |
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more accomplished than was *handed* to us by Daniel Robbins. I'd call |
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that a pretty significant failure. |
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Trying to do anything with the Foundation *other* than letting someone |
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else to the administrative work is pretty much not even something we |
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(the current trustees) would consider at this stage. We simply do not |
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have the qualified man power, fiscal holdings, or revenue to do anything |
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other than join the SFC. Remember that we make about $8000 a year and |
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that has to cover servers and hardware, any and all PR, plus anything |
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else that we require, such as legal filings. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Foundation Trustee |
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