I was involved somewhat with the discussions Daniel keeps referring to. The
talk of lack of GNOME applications referred to applications targeting the
gnome HIG. Nothing to do with being open or not.

Part of wanting to create something like this week in GNOME is to help draw
attention to efforts made by third parties to create applications which
target GNOME platform(including HIG), rather than a component of GNOME.

This week in rust as an example has crate of the week along with
information on new and updated crates published online. Hopefully something
similar might be achievable with Flatpaks and this week in GNOME.

The "GTK being c and ugly" and other comments mentioned here I have no idea
about. I had mentioned that the bindings for other languages haven't really
been in healthy shape for the 3.x release but that could be in my head.

Like I said previously, I don't think its constructive to label those who
offer criticism as attackers. Or to attempt to try and silence them through
trademark law.


On Wed, 25 May 2016 at 22:18 Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote:

>   > * No apps for GNOME/GTK+
>
> If that means that we don't offer a place to download nonfree
> applications, that's not a flaw, that's a moral superiority!
> It's part of respecting users' freedom.
>
> Every GNU/Linux distro offers a system for installing packages.  And,
> of course, you can install programs from elsewhere or build them from
> source.  This way is the ethical way, because it gives users control
> over what versions they run.
>
> So let's turn those attacks around!  Let's remind people that the
> distros' package systems are right way to distribute applications and
> GNOME works with those package systems.
>
> --
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