Hey On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 02:48 [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi List, hi Greg, > > Am 21.10.2018 um 16:06 schrieb Liam Proven <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 01:42, Gregory Casamento > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All, > > I am launching a kickstarter project to help to create a Linux > distribution based on GNUstep. Please take a look, feel free to make > suggestions and comment. The link is here: > > > This has kicked off an interesting discussion on Reddit. I think > everyone here needs to come and take a look, and answer if possible. > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9p9g0l/interesting_in_a_different_desktop/e838pxk/?context=3&utm_content=context&utm_medium=message&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=frontpage > > Highlight: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9p9g0l/interesting_in_a_different_desktop/e838pxk/ > > > it would be helpful, if Greg would chime in here. I quote this here in > case Greg did not read the reddit: > > "This strikes me as pretty cool (in several ways — e.g. nostalgia for a > better world that almost existed and easier compatibility with MacOS). > However (and I'm not sure whether this will be read by anybody who can > rectify this), how do we know that the person organising the kickstarter is > who they claim to be? (Most probably he is indeed the maintainer of > GNUstep, but I think that it should be good practice to make verifying such > things easier when money is involved — i.e. if Gregory Casamento happens to > read this, by any chance, none of this is against you, but against someone > unscrupulous who might have been trying to impersonate you, and exploit > your (admirable) work on free/libre software.) > The GNUstep website <http://www.gnustep.org/> doesn't link to the > kickstarter anywhere. The list of developers > <http://www.gnustep.org/developers/whoiswho.html> does list Gregory > Casamento as the chief developer, but it only links to his blog > <http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/>, which again doesn't mention the > kickstarter. > The twitter account of a (?) Gregory Casamento does mention the > kickstarter and it links to the above mentioned blog, but the blog doesn't > seem to link back to the twitter account. The twitter account is quite old, > so if this were a con, this would have to have been a long con (making it > far less likely); OTOH I'm not sure whether twitter doesn't allow for > changing usernames, etc.“ > > I think this needs to be rectified … > I responded to this and confirmed it’s me. I will also add the links in the appropriate places. > regards, > > Lars > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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