Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Jan 03 2006, 12:17:06PM CST] > I think part of the problem is that many people are forgetting exactly > what Gentoo really is. Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo > is not anything more than a loosely bound group of developers all doing > their own thing in a collaborative and collective manner. You cannot > use corporate thinking to manage such a beast. We don't have mission > statements. We don't have road maps. We don't have quarterly earnings > and market projections. We simply exist. The only way we can give > Gentoo a direction is by restricting what we, as developers, are allowed > to do. The only real restrictions we have right now are "be civil" and > "don't break stuff". Anything beyond that is inhibiting one of our > greatest strengths, our individuality and individual ideas.
[remainder snipped] Well, that was said much better than I managed. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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