-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2007 January 07 Sunday 11:51:59 PM +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: >> But *I*, as a user (this is -user, after all!) don't feel bothered by >> any kind of bureaucracy. Please explain first why I should take action >> at all at the moment. And why I shouldn't just go and take the next >> distro that fits my needs best (brrrr, Slackware :-)? > > You won't be bothered by bureacuracy untill the day you discover that > that package you want has been left months ago to fall into ignominious > forgottenness among the thicket of bugzilla ebuild requests or the day > you discover your favorite package hasn't been updated in 2 years and > the herd responsible won't (or can't?) respond to email inquiries. You > will care that day when you realize many things that are wrong with > gentoo may be the result of corruption or inefficiency. > > You should care because not even Free Software or gentoo is free. As in > politics apathy will only get you what you want or keep the affairs of > state safely insulated in the bureaucracy as long as somebody favorable > or benign is in power. You may be satisfied with gentoo now but what > will you do when emerge --sync stops working because somebody stopped > caring? I don't claim that everybody should contribute the same effort > or work or any work at all, but rather that you ought to at least care. > > Go ahead and pick up a copy of the next distro when gentoo crumbles to > the ground but at least reflect then that each distro out there is made > great by the work of lots of talented developers, volunteers most of > them, because they care because they love hacking software. > > This isn't meant to chasten anyone into a state of open source piety, > but rather is offered as a somewhat incoherent argument for why caring > matters, because in the end free software is a human endeavor. > > > Justin
Well said, Justin. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFokwW3Surd6QUhwQRAlcFAJ9ygdwtbhi7RhdAmTavxwjW47TEZACgiHf7 CCPfOAS0URrq9KN50KuB6P0= =BEPU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
