Re: Re[2]: project status

ok guys you misunderstood me again :P. The additional money you could
earn could be used to improve the infustructure. In theory if the shop
made enough money, you could do things like setup a news server for
gentoo users, or buy a very fast(t3-oc3) line dedicated for portage.
Just because you earn more money, doesnt mean you have to have a
profit!


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:36:47 +0100, Paul de Vrieze <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 January 2005 22:48, kato wrote:
> > lol.
> > it seems that you are a decision maker within the Gentoo project.
> > therefore, you made me stopped reading these posts, loose my interest
> > in the project, and indeed un-subscribe from this mailing list.
> > but yea, I m joe-user and you couldn't careless.
> > good luck in the future.
> >
> 
> Chris is certainly not the big cheese or anything, but he's right. Gentoo
> is very much for the developers. It also works allong the itch scratching
> lines. And currently the priority is not with average users. The reason?
> Well, if you want to cater average users you need to do different things
> from when you cater power users. Gentoo started out as a power-user
> distribution. It's main strengths are in easy customization, and rolling
> of your own packages. After that it has an attitude not to know what's
> best for the user. These strengths would be weaknesses for average or new
> linux users. In my personal opinion, such users would be better served by
> another distribution. In my view different distributions have different
> goals, and different targets. Each one can exist on it's own, and we
> should work to share our experience instead of engaging in fierce
> competition. As gentoo is a 100% volunteer effort we are able to make
> that choice. Gentoo tries to do what it thinks is best for gentoo, but
> does not try to change what Gentoo is.
> 
> Paul
> 
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> Paul de Vrieze
> Gentoo Developer
> Mail: [email protected]
> Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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