Re: project status

OK no offense, but why in the world would you not want profit.  Don't
get me wrong, I am all about socialistic, open-source, non-greedy
whatever, but like you said, profit goes to infastructure.  More
profit = more money for testing hardware = faster connections =
whatever.  Actually that's a good idea...maybe I'll do the CFLAGS
thing to learn pyGTK...


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:56:53 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Miller wrote:
> > ok guys... you are misinterpreting what i am trying to say. I know you
> > guys might not care about the average Joe, but look at it this way: it
> > can turn into profit by selling more cds from the shop-or by selling
> > support. While i know the redhat updater crashes a lot, that does not
> > mean that the gentoo one has to :). In all seriousness you guys are
> > amazing programmers. I just think that it would be benificial to
> > everyone if gentoo reached the mainstream. If gentoo was user friendly
> > enough(user friendly != no ability to tweak settings) it would take
> > away customers from microsoft, and possibly become the domininant
> > OS/Distro. I know that gentoo was made to be tweakable. What i suggest
> > is creating tools to change CFLAGS, explaining every option. This
> > allows for both user friendlyness and ability to tweak. You can label
> > everything so the average joe can figure it out, while still
> > maintaining the ability to change settings.
> 
> Again with the profit thing. Gentoo is a not-for-profit organization. The money
> that is made from the Store is used for things like maintaining the
> infrastructure (web, rsync, mail, etc.). We don't care about taking over the
> world to the become The One OS/Distro.
> 
> As for an automatic updater, it is very difficult to write an updater that can
> merge config files and other changes without user intervention. If you'd like to
> write one that works perfectly, feel free. We're always willing to take
> user-submitted code :P
> 
> As I said in another email, there is already a project beginning for creating a
> series of GUI tools for Gentoo configuration. If you want the tools right now,
> write them yourself.
> 
> --
> Andrew Gaffney
> Gentoo Linux Developer
> Installer Project
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