I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board
responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates
think about colateral aspects as well.
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
To build awareness among GNOME _users_, what do candidates think
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:14 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board
responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates
think about colateral aspects as well.
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
To
quote who=Richard Stallman
In general, a free program that runs in a completely free system is a
contribution to freedom; but GNOME is special: it was launched
specifically to defend our freedom. We stated GNOME to blunt the danger of
the (then) non-free QT library. I think most GNOME users
Hello,
What freedoms exactly?
The computer users I know can't code. What are they
going to with the source code they have the freedom to
modify?
I beg to respectfully (though strongly) disagree with you here.
If my mom in Togo cannot modify the source code herself, she can ask
one of her
Sáb, 2006-11-25 às 22:51 +, Joachim Noreiko escreveu:
Freedoms that you can't exercise are meaningless.
This doesn't stand to reality:
I'm not a journalist, yet freedom of press is not meaningless!
Freedom for you to study and adapt the code doesn't mean you have to do
it your self,
Joachim Noreiko wrote:
for the advance of computer users' freedom.
What freedoms exactly?
The computer users I know can't code. What are they
going to with the source code they have the freedom to
modify?
And free as in beer makes no difference to them: they
either got their Windows XP
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 01:58 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I would like to ask the candidates for the board to state their views
on how GNOME can work with the broader free software movement
for the advance of computer users' freedom.
Thinking out loud...
Even considering all our problems and
--- Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We stated GNOME
to blunt the
danger of the (then) non-free QT library. I think
most GNOME users
and developers today are not aware of this.
I'm aware of that, yes.
I first came to Gnome because I want software that is
good -- it just so
In general, a free program that runs in a completely free system is a
contribution to freedom; but GNOME is special: it was launched
specifically to defend our freedom. We stated GNOME to blunt the
danger of the (then) non-free QT library. I think most GNOME users
and developers today are not
