RE: [tlug] No more Gentoo

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Glover
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:24 PM
>
> Yes, but his blog does make it quite clear that Gentoo ain't 
> goin' nowhere.
> 
> And that is Daniel Robbins in a nutshell. :(
> 

Looks to me like he is kicking himself in the rear for not 
having done more.  He wishes the organization could keep 
going on their own, but feels that things are on a downward 
spiral, and this is a way out of the spin without letting the
organization fall apart all together.

Basically, someone else is going to handle the purse strings
for a while, and the developers can keep being developers.

:P  People in response made mention of responding more to
the whims of cantankerous developers than to users.  I would 
have to say though, that A) That tends to be Gentoos primary
audience most of the time anyway, and B) traditionaly, most
open source software has always been created to meet some
need or desire of the developers.  "I need a better text
editor, this one sucks," or "This bug is annoying the hell
out of me, I gotta fix it real quick."

Yes, it is nice when they give to the community.  Sharing is
a very good thing.  :-)  However, if they make the changes
that suit their needs, then it is only expected. ^_^

-- 
Ken