Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 21:20 UTC, submitted by Innova
"Over the past few days, I discovered that the Gentoo Foundation's charter is in the process of being revoked by the state of New Mexico, apparently due to regular paperwork not being filed by the trustees. What this means is that the Gentoo Foundation is currently hanging for its life by a string, and at any day could cease to exist as an entity. That is the very bad news. The good news is that I was able to talk to Grant Goodyear (trustee) this morning on the phone, and I have confirmed that Grant had received my email about the revocation issue that I sent 2 days ago and that he will be resolving this critical issue in the next couple of days by filing the appropriate paperwork with the state of New Mexico, and this paperwork will also remove me as President of the Foundation."
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2006-06-21
The free software world is merciless like that. If there's not enough interest, things start to decay and are abandoned. I don't just mean users, you need developers too.
Perhaps they should ask themselves what's missing from Gentoo. What makes it special, as a Linux distro? Why would I want to use it or develop it?
I mean besides the emerge system; some people regard it as stupid, both because it requires compilation and because it doesn't really teach anybody about Linux. And even if it was all that, there are several other equally good package management systems out there.
And also don't say Gentoo is "stable" or "fast" or other completely subjective perceptions.
Perhaps emerge was just a fad and it's fading out. You can't keep a distro alive just based on the fact that at some point the packaging system had a clever angle.
Edited 2007-07-23 23:59