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["David C. Haley" <dhaley AT tamsco.com>]

HA HA...yeah good one...APRIL FOOLS.

God I hope that was a joke :\

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On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:31:06 -0500
Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net> wrote:

> Thank you Eric. 
> As the new lead I feel it's time for some direction. I'm sure we'd all
> agree that SMGL is the best distribution by far compared to the other
> major Linux distributions. As such, we need to start acting like it. We
> are going to start going after the enterprise Linux server market and
> compete directly with Redhat et al. In order to do so, I've asked Seth
> (swoolley) to set up a for profit corporation based in Utah (laws there
> are good for corporations) for our North American activities, another
> one in switzerland (good banking system for corporations) is being set
> up by Arjan (abouter), and one in the Cayman Islands (for discretionary
> funding of certain... "special" activities).
> 
> In order to get support for all kinds of hardware, we will need to allow
> binary and non-OSS in the main grimoire. This will require a minor
> change to the social contract, but such minor changes are within my
> purview as project lead, of course.
> 
> In order to pay for the various certifications, incorporations, and my
> honorarium, we will of course need some kind of income. In the spirit of
> the new direction, we will sell subscriptions to our user forums, and
> mailing list. Effectively, people will need to pay to get support. That
> income however, is not estimated to be enough, so we will probably start
> selling the ISOs as well. In order to prevent piracy, I have started
> talking to MacroVision (macrovision.com) about various anti-theft
> protection schemes they can provide. This will, again, need some small
> modifications to our social contract, but they are very minor changes.
> 
> Since Andrew has buggered off and left us hanging with the sorcery team,
> David Haley has graciously agreed to be the interim sorcery lead.
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> On Thu, 2005-31-03 at 22:15 -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Due to my recent workload increase with my starting business and extra 
> > duties at
> > my "real" job I am stepping down as Project Lead this week. Paul Mahon has
> > agreed to step into my spot (since we don't have an Assistant Project 
> > Lead)
> > until a vote can be setup.
> > 
> > I've thouroughly enjoyed working with all of you over the last ~3.5 years 
> > (has
> > it been that long already?) and hope to have time to stay in contact on 
> > the
> > mailing lists and IRC (probably the latter more often than the former).
> > 
> > I'll still be around, but won't have time to keep my rank in the 
> > smgl-credits
> > file.
> > 
> > Sorry for the short notice; I've been trying to hold off doing this for 
> > as long
> > as possible, but just can't keep up the workload. Others will continue in 
> > my
> > place and, most likely, eagerly surpass the meager contributions I've 
> > made over
> > the years.
> > 
> > See you all around, and thanks for the fun!
> > 
> > -sandalle
> > 
> > --
> > Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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Regards,

David C. Haley
Network/Satellite Administrator
Parsons S & J
Baghdad, Iraq
Phone: 972.535.3740
Email: dhaley AT tamsco.com
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