On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
+1 to both Owen and Stormy's statements. Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
