Shane, Op Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:48:25 +0000, schreef Shane O'Connor:
> this is gonna be the biggest seller for Gnome. > ...if we want to get people to shift from Windoze... It irks me every time people talk about selling GNOME or using GNOME to get people to shift from some other platform. [1] * That is not what GNOME is about * GNOME is about making good, Free software. Not about sales targets, not about competing with Microsoft. If Linux/UNIX distributors want to use GNOME as a part of their commercial strategy, then that's great, they are after all free to do so and I applaud this. But if we let our design decisions be heavily influenced by such motives, I believe we'd be giving up on our ideals. And the trolls saying that GNOME has been hijacked by corporate types will be right after all. [1] Also, have you considered the people who have never used a computer before? regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
