Richard, I also like to see you show up in the GNOME Advisory Board
meetings and mailing list as FSF's representative.
Does that require travel, or can it be done by phone?
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On Dec 4, 2007 11:55 AM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard, I also like to see you show up in the GNOME Advisory Board
meetings and mailing list as FSF's representative.
Does that require travel, or can it be done by phone?
Typically by phone, though once annually by
I don't recall that any candidate explicily rejected supporting the free
software movement by means other than improving the attractiveness and
success of GNOME. But several candidates answered in a way that seemed to
pointedly imply a rejection of any such form of support for
quote who=Richard Stallman
I don't recall that any candidate explicily rejected supporting the free
software movement by means other than improving the attractiveness and
success of GNOME. But several candidates answered in a way that seemed to
pointedly imply a rejection of any such form of
The reason this is not so is that Microsoft is trying to spin the
apparent support of GNOME into proof that OOXML is not bad for
free software.
Such a risk is always there. People who base their information on what
one side of a story says are doomed to hear everything but
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:41:24AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Richard Stallman
The reason this is not so is that Microsoft is trying to spin the apparent
support of GNOME into proof that OOXML is not bad for free software.
Microsoft haven't done so publicly thus far, but the risk
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:37:27PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 7:15 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see how the foundation can 'make sure' of anything in this
instance. It can not force developers towards or away from either
spec. That is
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:09:31PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:15:11AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:23:57PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:34:54PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
and I hope
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:30AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:09:31PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
If you (or anyone else) is interested talk to the board. That
is all it takes. I'd love to do it, but the weekly meetings are
too much of a
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:40:47AM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:30AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:09:31PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
If you (or anyone else) is interested talk to the board. That
is all it takes.
What funding? No one is paying Jody to do what he does on OOXML;
again, he is a volunteer, doing things voluntarily. If someone were to
volunteer for ODF, the board would facilitate it. But the board isn't
going to pay anyone to work on either standard.
We have analogous
quote who=Richard Stallman
The reason this is not so is that Microsoft is trying to spin the apparent
support of GNOME into proof that OOXML is not bad for free software.
Microsoft haven't done so publicly thus far, but the risk is there, and we
will endeavour to make it absolutely clear that
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
The reason this is not so is that Microsoft is trying to spin the
apparent support of GNOME into proof that OOXML is not bad for
free software.
Such a risk is always there. People who base their information on what
one side of a
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 21:34 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Hello,
One question to candidates:
Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing
of ODF?
I think it is a no brainier that we should support review of any version
of ODF. That being said it
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:23:57PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:34:54PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Hello,
One question to candidates:
Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing
of ODF?
I'm sure it won't be for
On Nov 28, 2007 7:15 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see how the foundation can 'make sure' of anything in this
instance. It can not force developers towards or away from either
spec. That is simply not in it's mandate.
I may be being obtuse, but what's not
quote who=Gregory Leblanc
While this is all technically true, I think it's somewhat misleading,
based on my recollections, and what I could find in a brief browse of
the mailing list archives.
There was much clearer leadership in the community then, but I do not
believe that the community
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:15:11AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:23:57PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:34:54PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
and I hope the Foundation will help make sure the users of
GNOME can use the
Hey,
On 11/28/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
One question to candidates:
Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing
of ODF?
Why won't we?. It's on the interest of or community to promote free
standards, free software and if
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