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From: "Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: A proposal to get out of this mess
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On 1/19/08, Alec Warner <antarus@scriptkitty.com> wrote:
> On 1/19/08, Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> > Dominik Riva wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 15, 2008 2:15 PM, Wulf C. Krueger <philantrop@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Please explain why I should care about the Gentoo Foundation in your
> > >> opinion.
> > >
> > > Maybe because it is a the part of Gentoo was designed to holds Gentoo's
> > > assets? Things like the logo, servers, name, ... oh and don't forget the
> > > money - all rather unimportant things, right?
> > >
> > Well I for one would like the option of never reincorporating to be
> > discussed. The only thing that would matter is the trademark/brand. Infra
> > seems to be owned by others in any case, people and organisations who use
> > Gentoo as part of their work and thus have a vested interest in it
> > continuing.
>
> We have existing relationships we would like to maintain and that
> requires having a legal entity to maintian them.  Having that entity
> be a single individual leads us with a SPOF; hence the time currently
> being spent to re-instate the foundation.
>
> -Alec
>
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