Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> writes: > Meanwhile, you might try googling Zynot. That was one early, perhaps the > first, Gentoo fork. Such talk of cutthroat competition in a zero-sum > game, of deliberately cutting off user options so they'd be forced to > stick with you, of it can be us or them, not both, etc, was exactly the > sort of thing they tried. That was 2002/2003 or so. While the events > and acrimony surrounding that did ultimately drive Gentoo's founder > (Daniel Robbins) elsewhere, Gentoo survived (thanks in part to drobbins' > efforts to secure a good future for it even at heavy personal cost to > himself and his family as he was already in the process of leaving). > Gentoo's still here, but where is zynot today? > > I remember back in early 2004 as I was researching my switch to gentoo, > reading up on zynot, which was at that time still a going concern, and > repeatedly asking myself as I read the essays from zynot's founder > heavily criticizing gentoo and its founder, why can't he see what's > happening, that every single thing he's negatively pointing at in gentoo > and drobbins he and zynot are doing themselves in far greater measure, > and why he was so stuck on closed source competitive techniques in an > open source world. His very essays, supposedly criticizing gentoo, > instead ended up convincing me more than ever that gentoo was /exactly/ > the right choice for me. =:^)
Wow... What a history! I am educated. Thanks for sharing. I've always been interested in my distro's history. The information scatters here and there. It'll be nice if some senior/retired developers write up a Gentoo history on wiki.g.o :) Benda
