On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:58:57AM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni
> wrote:
> > Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux.  Gentoo is not anything more than
> > a loosely bound group of developers all doing their own thing in a
> > collaborative and collective manner.  You cannot use corporate thinking
> > to manage such a beast.  We don't have mission statements.  We don't have
> > road maps.  We don't have quarterly earnings and market projections.  We
> > simply exist.  
> 
> Which is why Gentoo has jumped the shark and is now on a long, slow
> decline.

Ok, then what should Gentoo do to fix this percieved decline?

> > Do you want to be a part of a project that doesn't allow you to
> > implement some cool new feature because it might make Gentoo slightly
> > harder to use for some people and that's against the mission statement
> > so not allowed?
> 
> Yes, absolutely.  

We need a mission statement first :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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