Ugh...I new this was coming. Anyone reading the Gentoo web pages could
note the implicit weirdness of politics at Gentoo. I hope Gentoo can
get their non-profit wing quickly established, but this fork was
inevitable. I bet Daniel Robbins contributed to and left another distro
like Debian for similar reasons Zachary Welch is now leaving Gentoo. I
think all of this is good for linux, though...more choices, more open
competition, and if you can't stand the confusion and chaos of switching
distros, Debian will hopefully always take you back.
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 08:59, Scott Falcon wrote:
> This message was forwarded:
>
> Gentoo just got forked. The guy who is managing the fork, Zachary Welch
> is talking about the reasons why he and a bunch of other Gentoo
> developers are doing this fork take a look at
> http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html
>
> The picture that this guy is drawing, from gentoo developers and it's
> atmosphere isn't good at all. it seems the guy who founded Gentoo,
> Daniel Robbins, nearly controlls everything, and many of the decisions
> are made without consulting the community. as an example he
> talks about Gentoo Games initiative.
>
> One thing which I could never figure about Gentoo is that although they
> have a social contract http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml which
> is based and similar to Debian Free Software Guidlines, but they also
> heavily work on things like Unreal Tourtoment and encourage and
> advertise using them.
>
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