If we summarize the whole thread without the emotional heat and the sensationalism, we are currently discussing :
- Should planet GNOME speak about GNOME only or should it be about GNOME contributors. side question : should we change the rules to remove old contributors ? Which can be translated as : "Should we keep Planet GNOME as it is or make it a GNOME only news feed?". That's all. There's nothing else to see. Richard, as a GNOME member, suggested that we forbid any mention of proprietary software on planet GNOME. It looks like this suggestion will not be followed as there's not enough support for it. Philip, as a GNOME member, suggested that GNOME should quit GNU. It looks like it was more a reaction to Richard's message. Anyway, it was out of the context of this thread. It looks like his suggestion will not be followed as there's no support for it. There was other noise but it's mostly irrelevant to the original subject and/or are emotional reactions to the two suggestions cited above (I include my own replies in this category). Links given by Dave are only sensationalism that are almost as relevant to the subject that an article of The Sun is about general relativity in the LHC. If you intend to post on this thread, re-read your answer before posting and ask yourself : do I answer "Should we keep Planet GNOME as it is or make it a GNOME only news feed?". If not, please refrain from posting. Even if it's very interesting. There's nothing bad about having strong feelings and emotional reactions. We all have that. But now, it's time to stop the emotional flow and put some rational thinking in the game. Thanks in advance in behalf on my inbox, Lionel On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:14:16 +0100, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > Handy Gandy wrote: >> I know that I have no credibility to make such suggestions > > Good of you to realise that. > > That's 2 new misinformed members mailing the members list this morning. > In case people wonder where these people are coming from, we have been > slashdotted, and Varghesed, since this thread broke on Friday: > > http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29995/1090/ > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/12/135209/GNOME-Developer-Suggests-Split-From-GNU-Project > > Thom on OSNews picked it up: > http://www.osnews.com/story/22610/GNOME_To_Split_from_GNU_Project_ > > and at some stage the story became "GNOME decides to split from GNU": > http://techie-buzz.com/opensource/gnome-desktop-split-gnu.html > > > Cheers, > Dave. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list