[CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

Mon Sep 14 14:43:21 UTC 2009
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:12 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 09/14/2009 08:51 AM, Christoph Maser wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 15:11 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
> > 
> >> However, I am not sure WHY you want to know these things.  We do not
> >> require anyone to donate to the project to use the software.  We do have
> >> expenses (like DVDs to hand out, posters to print, rooms to pay for at
> >> Linux conferences, bandwidth and machines for some services, etc.).  We
> >> would not spend any donations on anything other than those things or to
> >> pay developer expenses to maintain hardware and software required to
> >> produce CentOS (replace a hard drive that fails, buy a network switch,
> >> replace a bad power supply, pay for bandwidth, etc.)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Johnny Hughes
> > 
> > 
> > I want to know it beacause I considered donating but my personal
> > expectations for transparency are not met. (That does not only apply to
> > the financial things)
> 
> Absolutely, and you are certainly entitled to that opinion.
> 
> I have already assured everyone that we will not accept donations until
> we have something official in place with an approval committee to audit
> all incoming funds and agree on all expenditures.  This committee will
> have full  visibility.
> 
> As soon as we have details of exactly how that will happen, we will post
> them.
> 
> I may be a few more weeks as we work through the details.
----
you guys have my full confidence.

Craig


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