From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GQkcG-0008HX-40 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:58:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8MCvvbs029256; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:57:57 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8MCtGIB024113 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:55:17 GMT Received: from [10.181.255.188] (unknown [67.151.143.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FC0647C3 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Delay in approval of new developers From: Seemant Kulleen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <20060921175501.GI25921@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> <4512D9DE.9050405@gentoo.org> <20060921213418.48a9a9fb@snowdrop.home> <4512FACC.3080306@gentoo.org> <4513AC06.8020803@gentoo.org> <4513C5C2.3030207@sejo.be> <4513D3A0.50306@sejo.be> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:55:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1158929715.10027.2.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 63aed415-0b2b-4e2e-85f1-75656bfc827e X-Archives-Hash: 1814539db88b25baa68792976c269a3b On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:29 +0000, Peter wrote: > We can disagree on that point. All distros are businesses. Users are > customers. No users, no distro. That is not strictly true. You can have a distro without users -- nobody but you would be using it -- it's still a distro. It all depends on what you expect out of the project. I think Sejo's got the right idea this time -- this distro is just a community, and that's how it's run (well, it's run more like a commune, but anyway). If it were run like a business, the behaviour would be a lot different (and a lot more closed). For starters, there would actually be a leadership situation in place. You can argue that Gentoo *began* its life as a business, but the past three years have been far removed from that paradigm. Thanks, -- Seemant Kulleen Developer, Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list