While I'm not particular on the actual implementation, nor do I have a firm opinion one way or another on this matter, I personally see a large opportunity for Gentoo to create more "products" that generate revenue. This looked like a great opportunity for that, so that's why I suggested it.
From my perspective, we're going to take what amounts to a portage snapshot and spend time (and not a trivial amount either) maintaining it separate from mainstream portage. I don't think $20 a year is an unreasonable amount to ask for this - especially since the normal portage tree is still available. The money is meant to benefit the future of the project; it's not going into my pockets. I didn't expect the idea to be a popular one, but I bet if you took an informal poll of end-users who explicitly would desire using this tree over the normal portage tree, a majority of them would see the value and incline to agree. And while it'd be nice to just have a "Donate to Paypal" link instead, I'm inclined to think most people would prefer paying for a service rather than donating to a group. I don't intend this to flame or be flamebait; I'm just wanting to throw out ideas and perhaps get some people thinking outside the box. Caleb On Monday 02 February 2004 01:25 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: > I agree. I do not think that would be in the spirit of free software. > Additionally it would alienate a lot of developers and users. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
