Hey, On 11/26/07, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Would you change anything in the GNOME Foundation statement about > OOXML? >
Mmmm, I would have included a line in all-caps saying "GNOME Foundation doesn't like OOXML, we have someone in the committee because standard or not Ms is gonna push it everywhere, so we are taking the chance to ask questions and raise concern on all the problems we can find." :). I think the statement was fine, a bit longer than what the regular netizen would read however, so my new line would only be to avoid lazy netizens spreading FUD. As Jeff says on another thread, statement or not, the people "hating" us for being there is not going to ever be happy. So I'd print that line only to make it clearer for the ocassional bystander. > 2. How do you think the GNOME Foundation should support the Free > Software Movement in general? By keeping the high quality of GNOME and supporting the grow of our great community (note that it's on hackers hands to do it, but on Foundation's to encourage it). I always like to talk about GNOME when people asks or wonders about free software being "too hippie" or "non serious". My personal view is that GNOME is a great argument for confirming that free software can be more serious and efficient than any other privative alternative (think about our release cycle). I think the Foundation is already helping free software by supporting GNOME and promoting it, it also does a great job being a proxy to all the companies interested in the project. Nuking the brick walls for GNOME also nuke them for other projects. see ya! _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
