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Gentoo Officially Not-For-Profit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the call-jerry-lewis dept.

iswm writes "The paperwork for the Gentoo Not-For-Profit entity was approved by the State of New Mexico today. This means that as of today, the Gentoo Foundation is an official Not-For-Profit Corporation in the United States. The process of becoming a Federally-recognized not-for-profit entity, which will take about six months for approval, can now begin."

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  1. The compiler jokes are becoming boring by JTunny · · Score: 5, Insightful



    Making these jokes is getting to be worse than the zealots who made the ill-advised compiler flag comments in the first place.

    Gentoo is an impressive distribution, although admittedly it has its faults (find me a distribution that doesn't). I'm glad I got to experiment with it before it became fashionable to make derogatory jokes about it. Tthere's a fair chance all the +5 funny/insightful diminishing comments might have deterred me.

  2. Re:How about FOR profit? by klieber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about charging people for Gentoo, making a profit on it, and creating wealth, instead of a non-quantifiable warm & fuzzy feeling?

    Our software is GPL'd. You're welcome to pursue this. We chose a different path.

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    Gentoo Linux http://gentoo.org/