On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni
wrote:
> Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux.  Gentoo is not anything more than
> a loosely bound group of developers all doing their own thing in a
> collaborative and collective manner.  You cannot use corporate thinking
> to manage such a beast.  We don't have mission statements.  We don't have
> road maps.  We don't have quarterly earnings and market projections.  We
> simply exist.  

Which is why Gentoo has jumped the shark and is now on a long, slow
decline.

> Do you want to be a part of a project that doesn't allow you to
> implement some cool new feature because it might make Gentoo slightly
> harder to use for some people and that's against the mission statement
> so not allowed?

Yes, absolutely.  

--kurt