Subject: Re: [gentoo-core] FORK: The Time Is Now
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-06-26 04:02:27 GMT (6 years, 1 week, 3 days, 5 hours and 21 minutes ago)
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:08:55PM -0700, Zach Welch wrote: > Fellow Gentooers, > > I am proud to announce that The Zynot Foundation was registered today > as a 501.c.3 member controlled, non-profit organization in the state of > Oregon. This new entity is being established to hold a fork of the > Gentoo Linux distribution. Zach, I wish you and your team the best. I will not make any attempt to correct your account of events, even though they contain numerous gross exagerations, innaccuracies, massive "spin," and false insinuations that I am ripping people off, just in my initial scan of what you wrote. Littered with lies, and slanderous, certainly. Your write-up is like a "based on real events" TV movie, where there are *just* enough facts to make the story believable to those who don't know any better. I will not "retaliate" by writing up a startling expose of any supposed wrongdoings on your part. Because, frankly, life is too short for this kind of stuff. I don't want to waste it by launching personal attacks on people. I could easily "win" the argument by explaining in detail what really happened, sharing the real facts, details, situations, conversations and intentions, proving lies to be fabrications, assertions to be stories, and your supposed critical analysis to be fueled solely by irrational anger. But somehow I think that I'd end up "losing" by adopting your tactics. As always, if any developer has questions about *anything* related to Gentoo, including how money is spent, please feel free to ask me. Those who have asked know that I answer all questions fully, and do my best to help developers out with any needs they may have when I am aware of them. Anyone who suspects that I am rich can come visit my home in Albuquerque and form their own opinions. You can even take pictures and post them on the Internet, as long as you take pictures of my daughter (soon to be daughter*s*) too :) As for the debate, what's to debate? I congratulate you on your new open source project and wish you the best. Best Regards, -- Daniel Robbins Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org