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From: Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343494307.2870.0@NeddySeagoon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2012.07.27.02.37.47@cox.net> (from 1i5t5.duncan@cox.net on Fri Jul 27 03:37:47 2012)

On 2012.07.27 03:37, Duncan wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Not that such promises hold much credibility anyway... see the kde 
> promise (from Aaron S when he was president of KDE e.v. so as 
> credible a  spokesperson as it gets) continued kde3 support as long 
> as there were 
> users.  (AFAIK, at least gnome didn't make /that/ sort of promise in
> the leadup to gnome3.  And no, AS cannot be properly argued to have 
> been 
> referring to others, like debian with its slow release cycles, as he
> was 
> president of kde ev, not president of debian, or of the trinity
> project, 
> which AFAIK didn't even exist at the time, and didn't specify support 
> from OTHERS, not kde, so he was clearly speaking for kde, not for
> other 
> entities.)
> 
> -- 
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman
> 
> 
Duncan,

You don't want to listen to Presidents too much.  Look at other real 
life examples.  

Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for 
Gentoo? 


-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(Neddyseagoon)

Gentoo Foundation Inc. (President)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-28 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-10 15:18 [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/libudev Michał Górny
2012-07-10 16:54 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-07-10 17:57   ` Michał Górny
2012-07-10 18:15     ` William Hubbs
2012-07-10 19:23 ` Thomas Sachau
2012-07-11  4:51   ` Ben de Groot
2012-07-11  6:34     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-07-11  7:15     ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2012-07-11  8:27       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-07-11  8:33         ` Michał Górny
2012-07-11 10:40         ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-11 13:02           ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-11 13:49             ` Michael Mol
2012-07-11 14:06               ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-11 14:26                 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-12  3:40               ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-12 13:37                 ` [gentoo-dev] udev <-> mdev Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-12 20:07                   ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-12 22:29                     ` William Hubbs
2012-07-13  5:58                       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-07-13 20:04                         ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-13 20:12                           ` Richard Yao
2012-07-13 22:49                             ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-07-14  0:13                               ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-14  0:36                                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-14  0:40                                 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-14  1:10                                   ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-14  1:15                                     ` Michael Mol
2012-07-14  1:21                                     ` Olivier Crête
2012-07-14  1:29                                       ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-29 11:31                                       ` Luca Barbato
2012-07-14  0:41                                 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-07-14  1:22                                   ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-14  1:28                                     ` Michael Mol
2012-07-14  2:32                                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-14  2:34                                         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-29 11:38                                           ` Luca Barbato
2012-07-30 16:44                                             ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-14  3:13                                 ` William Hubbs
2012-07-14  5:35                                   ` Sylvain Alain
2012-07-14  6:30                                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-14 21:02                                       ` Peter Stuge
2012-07-14 21:29                                         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-14 21:52                                           ` Peter Stuge
2012-07-14 23:38                                           ` Duncan
2012-07-14 23:57                                             ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-15  1:02                                               ` Duncan
2012-07-15 12:30                                                 ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-15 18:25                                                   ` Duncan
2012-07-15 18:48                                                     ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-16  0:30                                                       ` Duncan
2012-07-16  0:57                                                         ` Michael Mol
2012-07-16  8:40                                                           ` Duncan
2012-07-16  9:22                                                             ` Peter Stuge
2012-07-16  1:00                                                         ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-07-16 13:53                                                           ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-16 17:52                                                             ` Duncan
2012-07-16  7:30                                   ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-07-14  6:13                                 ` Graham Murray
2012-07-14 11:33                                   ` Duncan
2012-07-15 22:34                         ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-11 14:09   ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/libudev Michał Górny
2012-07-11 14:35     ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-11 14:52       ` Michał Górny
2012-07-11 15:05         ` Rich Freeman
2012-07-11 18:26     ` Thomas Sachau
2012-07-11 19:27       ` Mike Gilbert
2012-07-11 19:54         ` William Hubbs
2012-07-11 20:33           ` Mike Gilbert
2012-07-11 20:54             ` William Hubbs
2012-07-12 17:16             ` vivo75
2012-07-11 21:04         ` Michał Górny
2012-07-26 21:44           ` Peter Alfredsen
2012-07-26 22:08             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-27  2:37               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-07-27  2:49                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-07-27 15:50                   ` William Hubbs
2012-07-28 16:51                 ` Roy Bamford [this message]
2012-07-29  0:14                   ` Duncan
2012-07-29  1:01                     ` Peter Stuge
2012-07-10 19:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2012-08-10  7:59   ` Michał Górny
2012-08-10 17:33     ` Thomas Sachau
2012-08-10 18:13       ` Michał Górny
2012-08-10 20:23         ` Thomas Sachau
2012-08-11 18:11           ` Peter Alfredsen
2012-08-11 18:29             ` Michał Górny
2012-08-11 18:39               ` Peter Alfredsen
2012-07-11  8:03 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-07-11  8:56   ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-07-11  8:31 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-07-11 14:04   ` Michał Górny

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