From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30281 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jun 2003 13:09:42 -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 8498 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 13:09:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3EFAF0AD.7060407@brad-x.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:10:05 -0400 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030430 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3EFA47A7.5080608@gentoo.org> <20030625181548.7fdd2a88.xwred1@xwredwing.net> In-Reply-To: <20030625181548.7fdd2a88.xwred1@xwredwing.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FORK: The Time Is Now X-Archives-Salt: 346d76b9-5b52-4f4a-8efd-21e039ef4c1d X-Archives-Hash: e9e742fe4b8fe8aaed179733da425a83 Matt Thrailkill wrote: > 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? You hit the nail right on the head. The ability to base a product or project on Gentoo technologies is in my opinion one of the greatest strengths of Gentoo being a metadistribution. I could form umpteen business ventures and create products based upon Gentoo technologies because *that is what the infrastructure is precisely meant for*. Look at gentoogames, and how well it demonstrates that Gentoo can do more than just be a Linux distribution. A fork is just a way to put your name on it. I've been around BSD developers too long not to know it's about clashing ego. Brad -- // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list