On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:34 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > 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. > > 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. Sometimes > those companies are proprietary software companies and while we hope > that they move closer to free software in the future (and that 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.
This is a great, positive way of saying things that I consider to reflect the long-standing views of the GNOME community and is inclusive of the diversity of opinions that we have. Continuing a negatively framed debate like "does the GNOME community believe that proprietary software is immoral" is not helpful. I hope Lefty will take a step back and consider whether his survey actually has a real purpose in guiding the activity of the GNOME project. We have a lot of software to write, we have a lot of users to get our message to. I think there's a responsibility on all of us, and especially those who could be seen (by virtue of holding a position on a GNOME board) as representing GNOME, not to get sidetracked into argument for the sake of argument. - Owen _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
