On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:34 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Stormy!
> I believe we can state it this way ... > > The GNOME Foundation believes in free software and promotes free > software but that does not mean that GNOME is anti-proprietary > software. We believe, promote, use and write free software. I fully agree with this statement if you replace free software with open source. > We are excited when companies and individuals use GNOME technologies > because we believe it brings us closer to our mission and vision of a > free desktop (or mobile interface) accessible to everyone. Awesome (the use of the word free is fine if above you use open source). > Sometimes those companies are proprietary software companies and while > we hope that they move closer to free software in the future (and that s/free software/open source/g > we are helping them do so with the use of GNOME), we are delighted > that they have chosen to use GNOME and will help them and their > customers. Fantastic. In my opinion we can only reconsider to use of the word free software in a text like this when the free-software foundation comes to its senses. This is an excerpt of a private E-mail that Lefty sent me. The survey's results are open for everybody so this ain't a secret anyway: "There's about twice the uptake for the term "open source software" as there is for "free software"." If the board respects the results of the survey, which I think it should do, it takes this into account. -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
