On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:54:51 +0200 ueberlamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 26 June 2003 20:36, Brenden Walker wrote: > > > A couple of thoughts regarding the recent fork: > > > > > > Did the person that forked fork it because he wasn't going to > > > be making any > > > money from Gentoo? That's the impression I'm getting from > > > all of this. Feel > > > free to correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > Not from what I can tell, he seemed to think that Gentoo was trying > > to keep him from making money. > > > > Reading his story about the dispute he had with Daniel Robbins it > seems like he wants to govern his new distro in a rather similar way: This is all interesting when you read DRobbins explanation why he started gentoo in the first place: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist1.html If you haven't, read (or if you have re-read) the sections: "People can get Ugly" and "Understanding the Freak". As forks go, this is pretty calm. I remember riding out the sorcery debacle, where the lead guy decided to take his ball and bat and go elsewhere (another "sweat equity" issue it turned out) when lunar-linux forked and the rest of us were left dangling in the breeze as we didn't want to switch to lunar. My opinion at the time was that it was a great example of how-to force a fork and shoot yourself in the foot while throwing away any goodwill you had generated, all at the same time. I don't know the status of lunar, but SourceMage was going strong last time I checked, and the original still seems to have a following as well. All I can do is give thanks for the GPL! -- Living in the complex world of the future is somewhat like having bees live in your head. But, there they are. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
