On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 24 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > > > It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from being > > > dependent upon a single sponsor or corporation. In the interests of > > > keeping Gentoo run by the developers rather than any outside party, how > > > about the following addition to the Social Contract? > > > > > > <heading>We will be run by the Development Community</> > > > Gentoo will be run by the development community. We will never allow > > > ourselves to be reliant upon a single sponsor or corporation. > > > > i think this whole idea is a moot point anyways ... go visit the Gentoo > > Foundation web site and see Chapter 2 Section 5 > > And how exactly does this help us in the event of say the OSL burning > down or the GNi suffering flooding? :) > > My point was simply that I think we would be wise to research whether > there is the possibility of spreading our critical infrastructure a bit > better so that in the event of an Act of God or suchlike we wouldn't > find ourselves losing everything to, say, water damage. > > I agree, adding a line to the social contract won't magically send our > servers across the world and into the homes^Wdatacenters of hundreds of > wonderful new sponsors. Would be nice if it did though!
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