Dr. Schaller,

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 4:09 AM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Am 05.03.2016 um 19:31 schrieb Liam Proven <[email protected]>:
> >
> > On 1 March 2016 at 20:20, Xavier Brochard <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Oh please, stop abusing yourself.
> >> This is not the first complain against your posts.
> >
> > I would like to record that I am now receiving personal, off-list,
> > abusive messages from Mr O'Leary now, who appears to be trying to
> > upset me with personal vitriolic attacks.
> >
> > He is failing, but list members of a more sensitive disposition should
> > be warned, and I felt that the list moderators should know about this.
>
> I'd suggest to rename this list to cuddle-gnustep ;) And ban every
> discussion.
>

​LOL, very funny.   The purpose of the list is, obviously, to foster
discussion. (Shall I keep stating the obvious?)   It is not reasonable to
expect that everyone will always agree.
​


> What I want is a new open list where free speech is possible and nobody
> risks
> being pilloried because of expressing opinions that a majority does not
> like
> or does not want to hear. Without this openness it is usually driving any
> discussion into personal attacks (I don't know who did throw the first
> stone
> this time).
>

​I do my best not to stop any discussions unless it has legal consequences
(as discussed with Maxthon Chan's ban about a year ago regarding decompiled
methods from Cocoa).   No one shall ever be banned from this list for
having a difference of opinion with anyone.  Abusive behavior is an
exception to this, as is following people off list and making personal
attacks.​


> I am still interested to find out about the goals (or if there are any) of
> this project
> by following such discussions. And to be able to decide if I should start
> to invest
> more time for this project or even less.
>

​I think the "mission statement" needs to be clear, but I believe it's
enough to say that this project started out as an effort to bring OpenStep
to a myriad of platforms.  Now that OpenStep has evolved into Cocoa I
believe GNUstep's mission is extended to one of bringing the ease of Cocoa
development to as many platforms as possible.   This mission includes the
idea of a "porting environment" if we were only that we would not have
ProjectCenter and Gorm.

I have been discussing with Ivan the idea of a "reference platform" for
GNUstep.  That is to say a platform which is tuned to give the user the
best possible experience with the framework.  Think along the lines of
NeXTSTEP/Mach or OPENSTEP/Mach vs. OpenStep for Solaris or OpenStep
Enterprise for Windows (OSE).

It's not as complex as some are trying to make it.
​



> BR,
> Nikolaus


​​
​Yours,
-- 
Gregory Casamento
GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant
http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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