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Why bother? Just Fork.

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.244.11.66] on August 27, 2007 09:39 PM
This whole discussion seems rather silly. Why "take back" anything? If Daniel, or anyone else for that matter, thought that Gentoo was being run so poorly that they needed to take some sort of drastic action, just fork the whole darn project. I expect that virtually everything there is GPL. Any bits that aren't should be small enough that they are easy to replicate. If Gentoo is really doing that poorly and the new distro gets the project back on track, then the new project shouldn't have any problem getting sufficient mass of developers and users as they defect from the broken project.


Tad

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