but none has actually stepped up to write actual code (as Martyn says,
everytime you start writting something, you hit the legacy wall).
It sounds like this might be a case of conflicting goals that cannot
all be satisfied. If so, we might be able to enable progress to start
by making a
Freedom from slavery is a means to an
end, the end being a just society with no racial discrimination and
equal opportunity for all.
Freedom is not merely a means to achieve something else. It is
necessary in its own right. Mere equality of
While freedom is an important factor in life, it is not the only
defining factor for quality of life. At the end of the day, most of us
want a certain level of comfort too.
We need a strong vision and strategy to become best of breed in
software. Merely being free will only
How about a healthy dose of ambition and aim for becoming the best
platform of choice, regardless of the freeness?
If you mean that we would like GNOME to be better than the other
desktops in practical terms, of course we would like that.
That is an answer to the question, Where would we
2010/2/25 Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org:
A. Try to make GNOME better in practical ways too.
B. Teach him to appreciate freedom, so he will recognize that the
proprietary programs are inherently inferior ethically.
It makes sense to work on both of them in parallel, according
to the
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:27 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
but it will never capture a significant market, which in the
end just means that you'll slowly become irrelevant.
Is your standard of relevance based solely on market success?
Only a few percent of computer users run the
As an Open Source for America member, GNOME has been invited to comment on
the US government's use of technology.
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Juanjo Marin juanjomari...@yahoo.eswrote:
This thread is about how can we set a strategic roadmap. It is more
about innovation vs stability. We are doing pretty well on the stability
side with our six-months cycle schedule. We are even adding some
OnOn Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:26 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
A free computing environment is always better than proprietary
alternatives. It is better ethically and socially, because of
freedom. Of course, we would like to make it better in practical ways
too. But we should not treat
Hi,
The big idea behind GNOME3 can be to offer a completely new User
Experience. GNOME2 did well with the usual Menus/panel/folders approach, it
brought stability, performance and we built the basic blocks of a Desktop.
Now comes the time to use those blocks to revamp how the user interact with
El jue, 25-02-2010 a las 22:29 +0200, Ivan Frade escribió:
Hi,
The big idea behind GNOME3 can be to offer a completely new User
Experience. GNOME2 did well with the usual Menus/panel/folders
approach, it brought stability, performance and we built the basic
blocks of a Desktop. Now comes
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:40 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
Hi there,
I agree with Frade, for example among my university friends facebook is
quite important, it's how you interact with a lot of people you don't
see daily and some times the way to find out about meetings, parties,
etc.
If the freedom offered needs to be taught and be appreciated, there is a
fundamentally flaw with that. True freedom should be obvious once it is
tasted.
If we had made that our criterion, it would have led us to reject many
past advances in our understanding of human rights.
I value the potential market we can cater as highly important, as this
directly determines the size of the economical ecosystem we can build
around F/OSS. While most of us are not in this to become rich, we all
have to eat and feed the bills. If we want our project to have
A. Try to make GNOME better in practical ways too.
B. Teach him to appreciate freedom, so he will recognize that the
proprietary programs are inherently inferior ethically.
however, point B is pretty much like saying that instead of coming up
with Copyleft you should
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