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Hi! |
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:09:28 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 7:49 AM Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I never stated that the trustees will know better, I stated that |
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> > their knowledge of what we assume to be real names will be |
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> > sufficient and there is no need for all developers to know them. |
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> > This is because the trustees are responsible for legal issues of |
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> > Gentoo. |
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> > With such approach we lose nothing, but gain something valuable: we |
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> > may and will accept more people and more contributions. |
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> IMO you lose a professional atmosphere. I think there is a difference |
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> in atmosphere when you have Andrew and Rich and Michał having a |
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> discussion, versus codebozo and leetcoder and trollmaster. (Just |
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> making up random handles - no correspondence implied.) |
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Gentoo is made by volunteers. I see nothing wrong that we all are |
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not sitting in suits and white shirts. (If someone are I'm also |
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fine with this.) |
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> I mean, which would you prefer to have on your linkedin network? |
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I refused to use linkedin and other social networks long time ago. |
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Practice shows that people interested in finding me can do this |
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without linkedin or similar networks. |
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In my professional activities on my job I'm often refered to on |
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wiki or mail lists as bircoph and I'm fine with this. I often refer |
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my colleagues including superiors and managers up to directors |
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board the same way. |
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> Many FOSS projects require the use of real names, including Linux. |
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Linux foundation is run mostly by conglomeration of corporations, so |
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little surprise they do. But many FOSS projects don't. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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