* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS
@ 2014-01-10 22:36 99% ` heroxbd
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From: heroxbd @ 2014-01-10 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> writes:
> Meanwhile, you might try googling Zynot. That was one early, perhaps the
> first, Gentoo fork. Such talk of cutthroat competition in a zero-sum
> game, of deliberately cutting off user options so they'd be forced to
> stick with you, of it can be us or them, not both, etc, was exactly the
> sort of thing they tried. That was 2002/2003 or so. While the events
> and acrimony surrounding that did ultimately drive Gentoo's founder
> (Daniel Robbins) elsewhere, Gentoo survived (thanks in part to drobbins'
> efforts to secure a good future for it even at heavy personal cost to
> himself and his family as he was already in the process of leaving).
> Gentoo's still here, but where is zynot today?
>
> I remember back in early 2004 as I was researching my switch to gentoo,
> reading up on zynot, which was at that time still a going concern, and
> repeatedly asking myself as I read the essays from zynot's founder
> heavily criticizing gentoo and its founder, why can't he see what's
> happening, that every single thing he's negatively pointing at in gentoo
> and drobbins he and zynot are doing themselves in far greater measure,
> and why he was so stuck on closed source competitive techniques in an
> open source world. His very essays, supposedly criticizing gentoo,
> instead ended up convincing me more than ever that gentoo was /exactly/
> the right choice for me. =:^)
Wow... What a history! I am educated. Thanks for sharing.
I've always been interested in my distro's history. The information
scatters here and there. It'll be nice if some senior/retired developers
write up a Gentoo history on wiki.g.o :)
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