Re: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy

["David Herbert" <mail@dsherbert.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thanks for the link but that doesn't cover it.  It's not remotely
convincing, Red Hat could say exactly the same about their distro, Red Hat's
package management system is GPL'ed but they are still very clearly a
company, very clearly a .com and it's obvious that their motives are
different from Debian's who are very clearly a .org.  The problem with
gentoo is that it is far from clear where their motives lie.  M$'s success
was started by some stupid decisions made by IBM, which IBM have regreted
and looked for ways of getting back at them ever since. IBM have their own
vested interests in Linux which have nothing to do with morality.  For IBM
supporting the free software community is a means to an their own unpleasent
ends.  Gentoo 'appears' to have strong connections to IBM, which to me
contradicts their .org status.  These are some of many reasons why I think
that if gentoo want to be a .org they need to explain who they are, hence
the need for a social contract.

Also if M$ was replaced with another company which behaved in exactly the
same way as M$ behave now we would have achieved nothing.

Regards,
David Herbert.

> Hi!
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