Well, it is very inconvinient indeed. Hope that he is alright and nothing bad has happened to him. Regards, Marko On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/30/2009 02:34 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> I'd personally like to hear what the community has to say about this, >> as it's not just an internal matter. Please speak up so that we know >> where the community stands on this. I'd rather be wrong, but know how >> people feel than take a stand for a community who has other ideas. > > That is definitively a problem. Not only regarding the monetary part, but > also regarding the future of CentOS. > > Pledges have been made, but there are no checks or redundancy of several > roles. The current disapearance of Lance Davis worries me a lot. Yes, we > still have a lot of competent people around, who can keep the things > going from a technical point of view (Jim, Karan, Ralph etc). But what > of the name (trademark?) ? What of the domain ? Will we need to change > ALL of our servers to update on a new place ? Will we need to change all > of our servers so it will use a new name (and not CentOS) because somewho > the holder of the trademark disapears ? > > That things came to a point where an open letter was needed is enough > to make a lot of people start thinking about the future. > > - -- > Rodrigo Barbosa > "everything looks perfect from far away" - The Postal Service > "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD4DBQFKccs6pdyWzQ5b5ckRAgRGAKC6AravqMZKyMiTmklc8zhkvhXByACYlJBa > 0yZ2E7HO2xAFBol0RfCGIA== > =bPTY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.