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From: Leo Lipelis <aeoo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:58:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020204005854.GA22957@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901c1acba$f3d98d20$fd00a8c0@frampton>

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:59:07PM -0000, David Herbert wrote:

> Call me paranoid but before putting effort into gentoo I would like to
> know more about who gentoo is.  You're a .org but are you actually a
> charity?  What is your relationship to gentoo.com?  What is your
> relationship with IBM?  I suppose I'm looking for a statement akin to
> debian's social contract, because at present any ethics (which to me
> is the whole point of linux) are only implied.

> Also it would be nice to have a global option (in /etc/make.conf ?)
> for allowing only GPL'ed software, GPL + other "open source" licences,
> or any licence - so the end user can decide.

> Regards,
> David Herbert.

You know, at first I thought you had a valid concern and I admired your
ethical stance.  But after seeing this:

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From: "David Herbert" <dsherbert@mail.com>                                      
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>                                                     
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200                              
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy                                            
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:59:07 -0000
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I just think you're a phoney.  Sorry.  I mean, at least you could boot
into GNU/Linux for 1 minute to send this silly email?  Is that so
difficult?

--Leo Lipelis


       reply	other threads:[~2002-02-04  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <003901c1acba$f3d98d20$fd00a8c0@frampton>
2002-02-04  0:58 ` Leo Lipelis [this message]
2002-02-04 11:22   ` [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy linux-dev
2002-02-04 16:37   ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 17:24     ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-02-04 18:09       ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 18:29         ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-02-04 18:39           ` Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt
2002-02-04 19:19           ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 19:40             ` Daniel Robbins
2002-02-04 23:39               ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-02-04 19:29         ` Chuck Haines
2002-02-04 19:20 ` Daniel Robbins
2002-02-04 19:42   ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 19:48     ` mbutcher
2002-02-04 19:51     ` mbutcher
2002-02-04 20:17     ` Daniel Robbins

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