On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 16:51, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udalt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I totally agree, IMHO GNOME is a base to allow distributors, vendors and >> third parts to build up and extend their own user experience and >> services and "fight" on free market. No competition means stagnation. > Yes, very true. GNOME wants to dictate some policies. Fair play, > because we own the code. But that dictate may kill gnome publicly - if > distros would not want to be dictated. > Back into the history, X11 provided "mechanism, not policy". GNOME > enforces policies. Fine, but let's not go too far with this dictate. > > And anyway, even if we dictate policies - at least we should have > courtesy to put them in words, I guess.
We're not dictating anything; we're just making an awesome OS, the way we envision, period. Dictating is what Mozilla tried to pull with their trademark policy. We aren't doing that. And I can't see us ever trying to do that, either. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list