On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:23, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > > > > Excellent, Karl. In fact it's really none of our business what model > Gentoo > > chooses. > > > > Yes it is ... if they are asking for donations. > > Tom Veldhouse > > No it isn't, as long as you are free to decline their request for donations.
The day that donating to gentoo becomes compulsory then you'll have a moral right to know. The day they offer to sell you a piece of gentoo (stocks, bonds), then you'll have a legal right to know. Until that point, you have a choice to donate or not, and gentoo has a choice to accept or decline any donation you offer, and no other conditions exist in either direction. Try asking all those questions at your local store, see how far that gets you. Try asking your local bar owner how much his salary was last year. Try asking the guy who fixes cars in a back street workshop, the pool boy, the street sweeper. Sure, you can ask, if you don't mind being seen as rude and excessively nosey, but you should consider any reply as a blessing because you don't have any right to know. Around here you'd be more likely to get a backhand slap than an answer :) If you really want to know, contact Gentoo inc with cash in hand and try to buy $1M worth of Gentoo. If you have the money and Gentoo inc wants it, they'll take the time to figure it out and you'll know. Just for the record, I was the CEO and then CTO of a small-ish open-source based startup for a while. Most of the time I had only the broadest picture of our value, where the money was going etc, and any time I needed anything like a financial statement it cost a significant amount of money. The procedures required by UK law for any Ltd company at the end of each year are obscene. If I was donating any money to Gentoo I'd rather it be spent on pizza and weed for late night debugging sessions or an overt bribe to get us a 2.4.21 based gentoo-sources than see it wasted on bean-counting accountancy. Some accounting has to exist, but you don't need Gentoo to pay thousands of dollars just so you can send them a couple of hundred. -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
