I am still President of the Gentoo Foundation?
I found out something interesting this morning. In my last blog post, SaigonNezumi (Kevin) left a comment:
Daniel:
What is the current legal status of the Gentoo Foundation, Inc.? It is not registered with Guidestar or with the IRS thus it does not have 501(c)3 tax exemption status as a charity.
The only database that contains any legal information to the status of the Gentoo Foundation is in your state: Status of Gentoo Foundation in New Mexico. You are still listed as the registered agent and office and President of the Gentoo Foundation. Nobody seemed to inform the New Mexico Secretary of State of the changes which they are required to by New Mexico laws.
In short, according to the New Mexico State database, you are still the President of the Gentoo Foundation until they are informed in writing.
Until new documents prove otherwise, I think you still have a legal claim to the Gentoo Foundation, per se.
If what Kevin said is correct - and I did some checking and it appears that his facts and interpretation are correct - then I am still President of the Gentoo Foundation. This comes as quite a shock. The first thing I want to do is make it clear that my prior post was meant to be nothing more than a late-night therapeutic blog rant, and that I have no specific interest in regaining ownership of Gentoo's IP.
However, I would like to see more fun in Gentoo, and a lot less politics, and in my apparent role as President of the Gentoo Foundation, I may have an opportunity to change things for the better. I will need to look into this more.
13 comments:
plz... take gentoo back and improve it!
btw.. don't let it slip away again.
Daniel get on board again we need you ;)
To change Gentoo in large scale you need to have the developer pool listen to you. WRT that I don't think it makes any difference whether you are the president of the Foundation or not.
@hey!!! we need you we need for energy and fun in Gentoo, break all the rules again,
POWER TO THE GEEK!!! NO MORE GRAPHIC INSTALLATION!!!
This is fun. If this is true, and you are still the owner I feel that you must act immediately. If you wait to long you risk that this whole thing gets politicized and blown out of propertion (distrowatch anyone?).
'Ask and thou shall be given'. It looks like you have a second chance. Please grasp it with both hands and take charge over foundation before it is to late.
Fork Gentoo?
We'll have a Robbintoo... :D
I agree with everybody... Gentoo needs you! It needs a great leader.
Yes... Gentoo needs u. Plz come back.
Agreed. Please exercise your rediscovered status as President of the foundation to help improve things.
The current leadership is a cancer on the future development of Gentoo. Like most forms of cancer you should just cut it out... or target them with lethal doses of radiation, but then the police would get involved and people would start to talk. Although, it does sound like the more fun option. ;p
Please save Gentoo !!! It dies, portage is in trouble!!! OMG!!! WTF with python 2.5? HEEEELPPP !!!!
yup, do that Robbin! and consider renaming the project to Funtoo which sounds really much more funny :D in my opinion.
one more thing:
funtoo Funto0 FUNTOO definitely. OMG I love this name.
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