On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 19:40 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: > What does "competing on the market" mean? Do you get a salary for > working on Gnome projects, which depends on how many people use your > software?
Primarily, markets are based on interest & attention, not money. > Since when is "increasing the user base" a primary goal? If that's we're > after, let's start writing closed-source software. Microsoft, Google, > Facebook and many others succeed more than Gnome, maybe we should just > follow them and abandon the Free Software idea. You imply that because of being closed-source, other projects are more successful, but it's more likely that they are successful for a number of other reasons while being closed-source. So that's a false cause. But we might differ on defining "success" here, I'm thinking in terms of userbase and marketshare, you might not. > Now seriously, which goal is more important: spreading software freedom > and free-as-in-freedom computing, or just getting more people to use > Gnome (which doesn't increase anyone's salary anyway)? To me both is important. Plus not sure why you mention salaries. > In my opinion, the point is that the developers themselves should care > about software freedom, and make that a high-priority goal, rather than > feeding their ego by having users migrate to Gnome. So "caring about software freedom" does not feed your ego by making you feel more morale compared to closed-source? Good, then. > You can't spread > freedom if you're not consistent with your own ideas. People will say, > "all that open source/free software thing is bullshit, look at them. > They supply a direct connection to Facebook and GMail and Twitter from > the desktop, before them even bother to give us a free alternative. It's > all bullshit, let's go back to Windows." "People will say" misses a citation, but I can come up with that too: "People will say that the open source/free software thing is bullshit, they don't even offer basic integration with the most common services on the interwebs. Freedom is nice, but I need to get my work done." Anyway, I prefer to make GNOME good, easy, beautiful for everybody, not just for people who already know and care about software freedom. andre -- Andre Klapper | [email protected] http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
