Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure --> Post by OP

2003-08-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 15 August 2003 04:52 pm, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 21:46, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > > ps, if I send a donation specifically marked "alcohol for > > > devels", will that work? ;-) > > > > I know one personally and I'm sure he would earmark any donations > > coming d

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure --> Post by OP

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Friday 15 August 2003 21:46, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > ps, if I send a donation specifically marked "alcohol for devels", > > will that work? ;-) > > I know one personally and I'm sure he would earmark any donations coming > directly to him for that purpose. Would you like he email address?

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure --> Post by OP

2003-08-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 15 August 2003 04:40 pm, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 21:27, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Friday 15 August 2003 01:40 pm, Bram De Smet wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:31, Zack Gilburd wrote: > > > > On Friday 15 August 2003 05:06 am, Eric Livingston wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure --> Post by OP

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Friday 15 August 2003 21:27, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 01:40 pm, Bram De Smet wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:31, Zack Gilburd wrote: > > > On Friday 15 August 2003 05:06 am, Eric Livingston wrote: > > > > Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their fron

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure --> END OF THREAD

2003-08-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 15 August 2003 01:40 pm, Bram De Smet wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:31, Zack Gilburd wrote: > > On Friday 15 August 2003 05:06 am, Eric Livingston wrote: > > > Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their front > > > page that they were full, enthusiastic supporters of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Collins Richey
On 15 Aug 2003 16:37:54 +0100 Yorkshire Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:23, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:41:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > All in all, it's not a must, but I think everyone who wants to donate > something would be glad if (s)he would know what happens with the > money. This was covered recently (sorry about line wrapping) Ma

RE: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
> > From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: U.S tax day. Another Devil's event. ;-) > > I dont understand why everyone gets so upset when Gentoo Users ask for > financial statements, which should be public information to anyone who > requests such information. I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure --> END OF THREAD

2003-08-15 Thread Bram De Smet
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:31, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 05:06 am, Eric Livingston wrote: > > Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their front page that > > they were full, enthusiastic supporters of terrorism, had in fact helped to > > fund the 9/11 attacks, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 18:52, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > From: "Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > > > Intentional invocation of Godwin's law nullifies it's use

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 18:12, Spider wrote: > Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > subthread? where? > There is no subthread! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/PRUQCcaVnbvggDcRArx2AKC

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
>> In shock? Have I disturbed your worldview to that extent? >No, I think he just questions your obviously unamerican viewpoints. I don't suppose you could point out the unamerican parts? Note that I do not assert that Gentoo is doing any of that, and if fact point out that I think it strange tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:58:34 -0400 "Eric Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their front > > > page that they were full, enthusiastic supporters of terrorism, > > > had infact helped to fund the 9/11 attacks, and were now i

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
From: "Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > Intentional invocation of Godwin's law nullifies it's use. It only > starts sub-threads. Case in point. > I knew somebody would point that out. I was hoping that the inflamma

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:46, Eric Livingston wrote: One more answer. > > Yes that would be b, you're just trolling. Find something better to do. > > I for one will not be feeding this bullshit any longer. > > Nice. I hope you have a pleasant day, too. Thanks I'll try to... > You have changed y

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:01:23 +0200 Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > subthread? where? > > /me hides > There is no subthread! -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature!

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 subthread? where? /me hides On Freitag, 15. August 2003 17:46, Shawn wrote: > Intentional invocation of Godwin's law nullifies it's use. It only > starts sub-threads. Case in point. > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:35, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > Fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:56, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > > > I do not know where you got your ideas form, nor do I care. I support > > > things that I think are right. I think Gentoo is a right

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
> Yes that would be b, you're just trolling. Find something better to do. > I for one will not be feeding this bullshit any longer. Nice. I hope you have a pleasant day, too. > So, I'm supporting the (further) development of Gentoo. I've gotten an > explanation about the use of the donated money,

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Shawn
Intentional invocation of Godwin's law nullifies it's use. It only starts sub-threads. Case in point. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:35, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > From: "Karl-Heinz Zimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > free as in freedom [RMS] ... thank you for considering me as a stupid > > > guy

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:13, Eric Livingston wrote: > I see, so you won't buy MS products because they support Bush, but you'll > happily donate to Gentoo even though they could also be supporting Bush? You > are being completely inconsistent. No. It was a question. Anyway I can't see Gentoo supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:23, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > > > > Excellent, Karl. In fact it's really none of our business what model > Gentoo > > ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:56, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > > I do not know where you got your ideas form, nor do I care. I support > > things that I think are right. I think Gentoo is a right thing, even > > though it is from USA and I do not think th

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
> > You'd just go right on donating? Because they write good software? I find > > that very odd, like you don't understand how money gets things done and by > > giving folks money you enable their agendas while reducing your ability to > > prosecute yours. > > I do not know where you got your ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
>> Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their front page that >> they were full, enthusiastic supporters of terrorism, had in fact helped to >> fund the 9/11 attacks, and were now in the process of pulling money >> together to help fund a nuclear attack on NYC, you'd just merrily ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 16:33, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > > > Thread me with respect or f**k off! > > > > i respect you and i fuck off > > > > all of that is realy not necessary > > Alright kids ... you are all kids,

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Karl-Heinz Zimmer -- > For the moment I am happy and thankful about getting such a fine > distribution for free, but i would not mind paying for it: I have > to pay for lots of other things that are miles away from this > level of usefulness - e.g. each month the German s

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:06, Eric Livingston wrote: > > [some samples...] > > > You'd just go right on donating? Because they write good software? I find > > that very odd, like you don't understand how money gets things done and by > > giving

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
From: "Karl-Heinz Zimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > free as in freedom [RMS] ... thank you for considering me as a stupid > > guy > > > I don't know if you are stupid, but I know that you addresses us by > "damn you everybody " with 4 exclamation marks. > > So think about the way of discussing

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
> Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > > Thread me with respect or f**k off! > > i respect you and i fuck off > > all of that is realy not necessary > > > Alright kids ... you are all kids, right? Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Friday 15 August 2003 05:06 am, Eric Livingston wrote: > Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their front page that > they were full, enthusiastic supporters of terrorism, had in fact helped to > fund the 9/11 attacks, and were now in the process of pulling money > together to he

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread brett holcomb
Gentoo is and they are doing and will continue to donate what time I have. If I had money I'd do that too . On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:23:55 -0500 "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > Excellent, Karl. In fact it's really none of our business what model Gentoo > chooses. > Yes it is ... if they are asking for donations. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread roger21
Janne Johansson wrote: for my part, i really don't know what they do with the money, i prefer imagining they just use it for "expenses, charges and developement" but i will never say "i don't care" Yup, thats pretty much what Robbins told it was used for. You don't have to say I don't care, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:06, Eric Livingston wrote: [some samples...] > You'd just go right on donating? Because they write good software? I find > that very odd, like you don't understand how money gets things done and by > giving folks money you enable their agendas while reducing your ability

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
> Why is Gentoo Technologies, Inc. any different, and why is > everyone getting so uptight when people ask for financial information, > which should be available to any external user wishing to use the > information to make their decision on buying, keeping, using, selling > or donating money and o

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 14:07, roger21 wrote: > Piotr 'p1t3r05' Piasny wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:45:34 +0200 > > > > roger21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software > >>comunity and you

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 14:06, Eric Livingston wrote: > > > how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software > > > comunity and you don't care about what is done with the money they > > > earn !! this is unresponsable > > > > As I se

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread roger21
Piotr 'p1t3r05' Piasny wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:45:34 +0200 roger21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software comunity and you don't care about what is done with the money they earn !! this is unresponsable ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
> > how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software comunity > > and you don't care about what is done with the money they earn !! this > > is unresponsable > > As I see it, money is not the issue. As long as the software is free and > the quality of the software high, I'm willing t

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 01:49, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > Having heard and read about this issue too I just want to express that > for me personally all this does not count: I don't care about the > business model, but only about the quality of Gentoo. > > As long as it is good like today (or bett

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Livingston
> > Interesting sentiment. So, if Gentoo were to post on their front page > > that they were full, enthusiastic supporters of terrorism, had in fact > > helped to fund the 9/11 attacks, and were now in the process of > > pulling money together to help fund a nuclear attack on NYC, you'd > > just me

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:45, roger21 wrote: > damn you everybody :) > how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software comunity > and you don't care about what is done with the money they earn !! this > is unresponsable As I see it, money is not the issue. As long as the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Piotr 'p1t3r05' Piasny
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:45:34 +0200 roger21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software > comunity and you don't care about what is done with the money they > earn !! this is unresponsable > ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in ``free beer.'' h

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 12:45, roger21 wrote: > Janne Johansson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 01:49, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > >>Having heard and read about this issue too I just want to express > >> that for me personally all this does not cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread roger21
Janne Johansson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 01:49, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: Having heard and read about this issue too I just want to express that for me personally all this does not count: I don't care about the business model, but only about the quality of Gentoo. As long as it is good like

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Louis C. Candell
Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Freitag, 15. August 2003 14:06, Eric Livingston wrote: >> > > how can you say that, i mean you use a product in free software >> > > comunity and you don't care about what is done with the money they >> > > earn !! this is unresponsable >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 01:49, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > > > Having heard and read about this issue too I just want to express that > > for me personally all this does not count: I don't care about the > > business model, but only about the quality of

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-15 Thread roger21
Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: Thread me with respect or f**k off! i respect you and i fuck off all of that is realy not necessary -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Excellent, Karl. In fact it's really none of our business what model Gentoo chooses. > On Freitag, 15. August 2003 00:35, ueberlamer wrote: > > On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:13, Tom Wesley wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 15. August 2003 00:35, ueberlamer wrote: > On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:13, Tom Wesley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not > > annoy too many people. > > > > Does Gentoo publish it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread ueberlamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 23:13, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not annoy too > many people. > > Does Gentoo publish it's donation incomes anywhere? A disclosure of donation data would

[gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, Not sure if this should be here, or -devel, so I post here to not annoy too many people. Does Gentoo publish it's donation incomes anywhere? I have to admit that I haven't donated a thing, was about the hit the button, and thought, well, how much? Surely they can't make, package, sen