From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25464 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jun 2003 01:12:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9180 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 01:12:24 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:15:48 -0700 From: Matt Thrailkill To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030625181548.7fdd2a88.xwred1@xwredwing.net> In-Reply-To: <3EFA47A7.5080608@gentoo.org> References: <3EFA47A7.5080608@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FORK: The Time Is Now X-Archives-Salt: df2dc430-e055-4276-a4f5-ad146aff93ab X-Archives-Hash: 50e1ffdc7ed32cf180c415783d1f4c68 Why do all these spinoff companies keep getting made to work on what is supposed to be a meta-distribution? Why can't it all be kept unified under one umbrella? Why did you have to fork and found a company to target embedded and enterprise users and developers? On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:08:55 -0700 Zach Welch wrote: > Fellow Gentooers, > > I am proud to announce that The Zynot Foundation was registered today > as a 501.c.3 member controlled, non-profit organization in the state > of Oregon. This new entity is being established to hold a fork of the > Gentoo Linux distribution, targeting embedded and enterprise users and > developers. We will be establishing a new development culture > suitable for creating a reliable, validated, and production-ready > distribution - initially using the Gentoo technology we all have come > to know and love. > > While I am currently leading this effort, I have already attracted a > number of others willing to help me guide this project through its > initial growing pains. In the next couple of months, I expect this > project to evolve as truly community run organization, and we will be > drafting the foundation's bylaws out in the open, accepting input from > the community thoughout the entire process. > > I humbly submit that every present or future Gentoo user, developer, > client, or investor should read my paper at the following URL. In > great detail, it describes the events that drove me to this current > state of affairs, the reasoning behind the fork (along with a section > covering the most current events), along with a brief glimpse at the > choices this fork will be offering the community that grows around it: > > http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html > > and the following links has some initial questions answered about the > future and other ideas: > > http://www.zynot.org/info/faq.html > > We are working to establish parallel infrastructure at Oregon State > University; however, my resources have been heavily invested in the > Gentoo project, both material and finacially, and many of the details > of those investments are documented in the above paper. My attornys > have sent a letter to Mr. Robbins requesting these investments be > returned. > > For those that would speculate about the timing of this announcement, > my paper presents facts that suggest the recent re-organization post > by Daniel Robbins was a pre-emptive and unsuccessful attempt to > short-circuit this fork. Consider that fact along with the remaining > evidence presented in my paper as you read the inevitable damage and > spin control that follows this post. > > I would like to invite Daniel Robbins to meet me at LinuxWorld > Expo, 2003, for a head-to-head public debate about the issues > surrounding this fork. The Zynot Foundation has registered booth #5 > in the .org pavillion, and we are looking forward to talking with > everyone then and there. In the meantime, come join us on IRC in > #zynot > or #zynot-dev on irc.freenode.net where there is sure to be lively > discussion. > > Finally, I would like to thank all of the users and developers that > have made Gentoo a wonderful technology, and I look forward to being > able to give something substantial back to the community with this new > distribution. Thank you for the memories. > > Sincerely, > > Zachary T Welch > Managing Member > Superlucidity Services > zwelch@superlucidity.net > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list