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Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect
bdowne01 writes "Gentoo Linux has experienced rapid growth in the past year--much to the credit of Daniel Robbins, the founder and Chief Architect of the project. Earlier today, he announced his resignation from his role on the gentoo-nfp mailing list."
Tester adds "But before leaving, he has set up a non-profit foundation that will own all of the copyrights to Gentoo. The initial board of trustees will be appointed by Daniel, but next year they will be elected. The membership of the foundation will be open." Reader burnitall points out a note on the Gentoo homepage reading "... We are extremely sad to see Daniel Robbins depart, and we both wish him the best in his new endeavors and promise that the door will always be open for his return." Robbins' message also indicates he hopes
to continue working on the release engineering aspect of Gentoo.
Just make the check out to "Cash".
The check is in the post Mr Cash. You'll be rolling "on lawn" soon enough.
Go and buy yourself a banana daquiri and paint the town red with some young nice men.
Lord knows you closet cases need the money more than I do. No hetero male would that concerned with gay men.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
"Why?" .config files, they want to click 'Yes' or 'No'. I personally don't mind, but I have a geek-ish bent that goes back to high school; ran my own BBS on software that I mostly wrote myself.
I ask this in all seriousness. It seems to me, an admitted outsider with little Linux exp., that the more I hear the more fragmented it seems. What with this distro and that distro, KDE vs Gnome vs. X11 w/ IceWM or whatever, apt-get vs. portage (I think...) vs. compile-from-source, apparent binary incompatabilities, etc. etc. etc.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for F/OSS in principle. I first tested the Linux waters in '99 with SuSE 6.x; tried installing it on a Compaq 486 box. Never got it to go, but was later successful with a homebuilt K6-2. And it was nice! I got the xserver running, played around with different window managers, became aquinted with the CLI. And it worked better on my sketchy hardware than Win98SE (which had the typical problems) and Mandrake 7.x (which would hang during install while trying to query the PCI bus).
However, even now it seems like there is too much choice for the layperson. The average Joe doesn't want to have to mess around with
Until the Linux community comes together and agrees upon a standard interface, be it Gnome, KDE, or whatever for desktop distros, then it isn't going to make it mainstream.
Let the flaming commence.
(tig)
Ignorance and prejudice and fear
Walk hand in hand
People like you "On Lawn" merely immitate educated people. Unfortunately your ignorant views give you away rather easily. It doesn't even matter if you post annoymously it's plain who you are.
Discrimination against people because of their race, creed, religion or sexual preference is just plain passe nowadays. People much greater than a cliched worm like you were and are gay. Alan Turing for instance, the founder of modern computing, Artificial Intelligence and cryptography- A man that pioneered the field. Or perhaps Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest and most admired Presidents who held the Union together and abolished slavery (to verify this, read his diaries and letters). Also Leonardo DaVinci, the artist and inventor who invented things that you yourself enjoy every single day.
Bigots like your good self oppose homosexuals for one of two reasons:
1 - you are one youself but fear your urges. There's been a great deal of sociological writing on this issue.
Or
2- You belong to a group that benefits from the persecution of minorities. fundmaentalist Christians, Neo-Nazis, KKK members etc. They all have this in common, in that they define themselves by who they persecute. Of course, a great deal of these types also fall into the first category. Of course they conviniently forget that Jesus was a Jew, and that Paul the Apostle was gay.
You do indeed care what homosexuals do in their bedroom, as you're intent on slandering them. Homosexuals are entitled to the same privelleges and rights as anyone else is. whether you like it or not, your antequated bigotry really doesn't belong on an intellectual newsgroup for Nerds. Something you obviously pathetically aspire to.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." - Ring any bells? No, I thought not.
So next time you're using your computer that a GAY pioneered, or driving a car that yet another GAY invented, or living in the UNITED states of America, don't forget to thank the Gay men that made it all possible for you.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
What? Gentoo Linux is dying?
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