On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:55:24PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Friday 06 June 2003 19:33, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Can you summarize that philosophy? >
> - Community and freedom. Gentoo is a community-based, volunteer-driven > project; it will give all its developments back to the community under free > licenses, and it will never depend on non-free software. It will not hide > problems from its users. Regarding "will never depend on non-free software": recently I tried to do a simple inspection of the gentoo archives regarding non-freely-distributable programs, and the results are that there is seems to be no clear separtion between free and non-free software. There also seems to be nothing like debian's "contrib" (programs that depend on non-free programs). One example: look at the programs that depend on Java > There is also a thriving user community, and we try to keep the distinction > between users and developers small. It's a natural process for users to > become developers eventually. Hmmm... What about users that don't really want to be developers, but look for a "good distro" (as a tool)? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
