On 12/15/09 4:09 PM, "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Lefty wrote: >>> Given the proposition that proprietary software is "illegitimate", and >>> the statement above, do you believe that the GNOME Foundation and >>> community should distance itself from companies which produce proprietary >>> software? >>> >>> Specifically, should the Advisory Board be dissolved, and should the >>> Foundation refuse further financial support from the companies that >>> are currently on the Ad Board? >> >> I for one am interested in Richard's position on this. Mine is clear: I have >> no problem at all working with companies who want to improve GNOME or the >> GNOME platform, even if they develop proprietary software. And the money they >> give to GNOME gets used to improve GNOME, so as long as there are no strings >> attached, I don't care particularly why they give it. >> >> On the other hand, I feel under no obligation to promote their non-free >> software offerings, or guilt in encouraging free equivalents of their >> proprietary components & products. > > I fee like you took thoughts out of my mind but unlike me were able > to express them very nicely. :)
I'm actually still hoping to get a response on this... _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list