Excellent, Karl.  In fact it's really none of our business what model Gentoo 
chooses.  

> On Freitag, 15. August 2003 00:35, ueberlamer wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:13, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not
> > > annoy too many people.
> > >
> > > Does Gentoo publish it's donation incomes anywhere?
> >
> > A disclosure of donation data would really appease that negative
> > impression I have of gentoo's business plans and concept recently.
> > My scepticism started when I heard about the zynot fork episode.
>
> Having heard and read about this issue too I just want to express that
> for me personally all this does not count: I don't care about the
> business model, but only about the quality of Gentoo.
>
> As long as it is good like today (or better :-)) I will use it - no
> matter if it costs money or not.
>
> If somebody might become rich due to making/selling/supporting
> Gentoo, that's no problem for me - but if Gentoo would not be
> a good distro anymore ( good == usable for my purposes ) - THAT
> would be a problem for me.
>
> For the moment I am happy and thankful about getting such a fine
> distribution for free, but i would not mind paying for it: I have
> to pay for lots of other things that are miles away from this
> level of usefulness - e.g. each month the German state takes away
> a considerable part of my money to build even more highways and
> strange stuff like that...
>
> But (of course) that's just my personal opinion and everybody
> is absolutely free to have a different one.  :-))
>
> Karl-Heinz

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