On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On 6/3/05, Tom admin@homemachine.net wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
This is because people using CentOS won't donate even $1, one time, to the project....oh well, such is life.
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good point, I gave a 1 time donation then forgot about it :( have just paid again (not a lot but that's what's needed), that's my vote :)
PS add a remind again in x months option somewhere Johnny :D
Johnny,
I am very much appreciative of the effort that is put into CentOS. I leave my machine doing BT all the time and have donated 225+GB so far. I would be willing to give money, but only after I see an accounting and description of where the money is going.
There is no accounting as no money has gone anywhere !!
I asked for that many months ago and got no response, so I left it that there was enough money coming in that it isn't worth doing the accounting to get even more money.
In fact there is virtually no money coming in. Approximately $200 since the split with cAos some months ago. There is some money that cAos still hold that is due to CentOS which they say is approx $1500 although we have seen no accounting records or details of donations to justify the figure.
I would probably just trust that the money goes to a good place, but the second result on this search doesn't sit well with me. That story is also the reason I am concerned about the slow and unpublicized drift from RHEL-SRPM rebuilds (change to Glade, change to Mozilla cert-db).
Isnt is nice that people can publish unfounded allegations on the Internet and leave them there and there really isnt anything that you can do about it. Needless to say my version of the story differs markedly in all substantial respects , although I dont intend to explain them here.
You are reading the rantings of a disgruntled employee, who did not deliver what he promised and as a result, and the fact that he started his own business in the time of his employer and didnt see that as an issue that affected his emplyment, left the company and set up in competition using most of the same suppliers and knowledge gained whilst employed.
uklinux.net sponsored the development of cAos and the development of CentOS by providing 3 dedicated servers when no one else was interested, besides paying my wages and allowing me to spend time on the project(s). I can easily say that without uklinux.net CentOS would not now exist as a distribution in any form whatsoever.
uklinux.net also sponsors the community stands at UK linux exhibitions and has done so for many years.
The basic error in his argument is that he never understood the difference between turnover and profit.
Lance