Re: [MISC] ComOn om MS-pakken

[Anders Bruun Olsen <sslug@sslug>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:08:58PM +0100, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote:
> Anders> Har du nogen referencer til at påvise disse påstande?
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
> ===
> I very much want to find a way to turn the Gentoo Linux project into a
> profitable enterprise. My main motivation in wanting to do this is so I can
> stop living from paycheck to paycheck and focus my professional efforts
> exclusively on Gentoo Linux development. Many of our developers would like to
> do the same thing.
> ===

Der skal paragraffen lige over den du der citerer næsten også nævnes:

===
6. Is Gentoo going to sell its own ISO CDs, and become a fully
commercial company, or are you going to stay largely community-based?

Daniel Robbins: Hopefully something in-between. I never want to
compromise our free software development principles in order to make
money. Nor do I want to put our project in a position where we are
*tempted* to compromise our principles in order to make money, as many
companies are. We certainly don't want to try to fit into the mold of
companies like Red Hat and Mandrake just because that's the "distro
way". We want to choose our own path and find a healthy synergy between
developing free software and growing a business based around Gentoo
Linux.
===

Sådan en fremgangsmåde kan jeg virkeligt godt lide. Lige netop det at de
ikke vil gå på kompromis med FOSS udviklingsprincipperne er det der gør
den største forskel til f.eks. Lindows.

> Men ok:
> http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030630-newsletter.xml
> They will also serve to help reorganize the project in such a way to allow
> Gentoo to continue its planned migration to a not-for-profit organization.
> Det er da godt, hvis de vil gå den vej.  De er nok blevet presset af Zynot, 
>  http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html

Hmm.. Zynot havde jeg ikke lige hørt om før.. men det ser da interessant
ud!

> Men indtil videre er Gentoo T Inc altså et privat for-profit firma.

Korrekt, men de har på ingen måde udvist samme holdning som f.eks.
Lindows. Jeg er som jeg har skrevet nogle gange efterhånden, ikke imod
at folk vil tjene penge på FOSS, så længe de holder den moralsk korrekte
fremgangsmåde.

-- 
Anders
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