From: Jason Weisberger [mailto:jbdu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:11 PM
> It would figure that some in the Linux community would > consider a sub 1.0 release as the birthday of a project :). You were sub-1.0 when you were born, why not Gentoo? Besides, the 1999 "birthday" reflects the registration of the gentoo.org domain and thus when the project was officially named Gentoo; otherwise it would have been 10 years old in 2010, not 2009.
