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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:26:31 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:14:00 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I consider it growing up. Do we want businesses to run and base their
> service/product offerings on Gentoo? If so we must take it seriously.
> Otherwise we are just a hobby distro for the uber geeks.

If you want businesses to use Gentoo, you need to start offering things
that make Gentoo a better solution than other distributions. That,
first and foremost, means technical improvements, an area upon which
Gentoo is most definitely not focused right now.

> What makes a developer only -dev list any different than developers
> only having a voice on #gentoo-dev?

The former is where development discussion is supposed to take place.
The latter is a social convenience.

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Ciaran McCreesh


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