On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:16:45 +0100
George Prowse <cokehabit@gmail.com> wrote:

> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Matthias Langer wrote:
> >   
> >> no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read
> >> on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that
> >> it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own
> >> developers. 
> >
> > Gentoo's always been exclusively for the developers. Nobody's
> > paying us to do this. It just so happens that the things we want to
> > do also benefit other people, and so they use them.
> >
> >   
> That is possibly the most pathetic, misjudged and harmful (to Gentoo) 
> post I have ever read. You should be ashamed.

Well, I'm not. I have no idea what you read, but it doesn't appear to
be what I wrote.

> Just because developers develop because they want to doesn't mean
> they dont want to be part of a community, if that wasn't the case
> then none of the current developers would have originally been part
> of the userbase to begin with.

What relevance does this have to anything I said? I wasn't addressing
anything about being part of communities; I was addressing the
motivation of volunteers contributing to Gentoo.

Thanks,
Donnie