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On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:47 +0000, James wrote: |
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> Jil Larner <jil <at> gnoo.eu> writes: |
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> > May I suggest you split the discussion if you continue about licensing, |
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> > so we can keep a clear topic on Daniel's come back ? |
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> I only use licensing as an example (that I'm willing to defend |
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> as long as it takes) to support the notion of vehicles to |
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> generate revenue around the 'gentoo engine'. After all, if |
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> you look at Daniel's recent past, he's been searching for ways |
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> to use Gentoo, to *make money*. Several folks have pointed out |
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> that the majority of people believe that using (gentoo) linux to |
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> make money is a good idea. Daniel has been with lots of ventures |
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> in the recent past. Gentoo is his next 'bidness'. |
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By friday (or saturday) we will know whether or not DRobbins has been |
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accepted, and shortly after you will know if it is his plan to |
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commercialise Gentoo (which I personally don't think he is about to do). |
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If he does (there are a lot of if's leading up to this) then surely you |
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can apply to work on the project. And just like Fedora, there will be a |
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"free" split. |
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If this doesn't happen, you can of course start your own commercial |
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Gentoo project. Write an installer that can handle multiple PC's |
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easily, polish some business aspects (printer admin, domain control, |
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security), and write some scripts to share the compile amongst multiple |
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business machines and install from packages, and away you go. |
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I don't see a problem with the RedHat / Fedora model, but it doesn't |
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suit Gentoo in it's current form. Firstly, Fedora is the spin off, and |
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I can't see Gentoo agreeing to accept direction from a commercial |
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parent. Secondly if the current team were to become the commercial |
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entity and spin off a free child, I can see from the attitudes of the |
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current devs that they are not focused on a highly polished and business |
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attractive product. They're not interested in a flashy installer for |
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example (which is fine) or binary packages. |
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In fact, given the "love" that the collective devs have for DRobbins, I |
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can see them either say "no", or nothing at all. Which means either |
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DRobbins, or someone else, will take Gentoo and fork it. The two |
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distributions will probably grow to hate each other, although they may |
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occasionally share problems and fixes, but certainly neither will have |
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control or direction over the other. |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Got a complaint about the Internal Revenue Service? |
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Call the convenient toll-free "IRS Taxpayer Complaint Hot Line Number": |
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1-800-AUDITME |
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