Re: [CentOS] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Gore
joh...@centos.org wrote: I STILL do not understand why anyone would care what CentOS does with money donated by people who used the product and wanted to donate. I used to think this way too, until I got burned. Most people are reasonable and know you are providing an excellent

Re: [CentOS] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-18 Thread Bent Terp
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: Which, again, is why CentOS is currently NOT accepting cash donations *until* some form of oversight is set up. Okay, but if some of the people doing the grunt work of CentOS (I won't list names here simply because I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-17 Thread James B. Byrne
On: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:27:02 -0500, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I STILL do not understand why anyone would care what CentOS does with money donated by people who used the product and wanted to donate. If we were having wild beer parties every week ... as long as the packages

Re: [CentOS] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-17 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: Money is a very corrosive material to place in the hands of people absent public oversight.  It needs to be treated with both caution and circumspection lest it destroy that which it is intended to aid.  That is why