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On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 11:04:32 -0500 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday, January 6, 2017 1:12:04 AM EST Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> > On 01/05/2017 02:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > > What could a "Chief Architect" do besides just pick one winner and |
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> > > have everybody else go elsewhere? |
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> > Isn't that a bit of a false dichotomy? You're implying that a single |
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> > architect couldn't come to the same conclusion as a committee. A BDFL |
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> > could easily decide that choice is important and ask developers to keep |
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> > that in mind going forward... pretty much exactly as the Council has done. |
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> > |
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> > The 'B' part of BDFL is important. |
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> YES, Steve Jobs, Apple. |
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> Do you really need any better example? You think Oracle would be that without |
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> Larry Ellison? Bill and others left Microsoft and its just lost market share. |
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> Larry and Serge still run Google. Mark at Facebook, ever noticed the mailer, |
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> zuckmail.... |
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> It is very foolish to thing boards or committees can do the same as |
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> visionaries. History shows otherwise. There is no better example than Apple. |
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> They thought they could run Apple better than Steve. |
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> Gentoo legally has been a mess since Daniel left. That is a fact! Look into |
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> the legal situation and you will see that cannot be contested, thus a fact. |
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> Now the other aspects could be contested, but I cannot see Gentoo hurting |
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> itself any worse than it has since Daniel left. |
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> Its just naysayers that cast doubt rather than being open minded to trying |
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> alternatives. While being involved in a project Daniel started. |
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> I am not surprised, Daniel gets no respect for founding Gentoo, the |
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> foundation, etc. I get no respect for what I did for the foundation. |
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> Steve Jobs was also not respected, till he was needed.... |
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I see where you are going, William. I have to say that this surprised |
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me a bit, and I am very flattered by your trust. However, I'm sorry to |
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say that I don't feel like I'm interested in running Gentoo all by |
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myself at the moment. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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