On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:20 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Personally, I think we are delighted that they decided to use GNOME. > We aren't praising the proprietary software but expressing happiness > that they have decided to use free software that we have developed. > > My impression is that the community is delighted when the Nuvo Garmin > or Supersonic Imagine use GNOME technologies. > > I think we gain more by being excited and asking them to join our > community, meet us, learn more about free software, etc than if we > temper it down. When you praise someone that's learning something, you > don't say "that's ok but it'd be better if ...", you say "that's > great! nice job!" And then the next time you say "how about if you try > xyz this time?"
hmm.. I think this position is similar to the rationale on the creation of LGPL, the objetive is the promotion of Free Software. GNOME is a good technology, but there are more popular propietary technologies out there. It's a strategical decision. Well, it's seems that it's no coincidence that LGPL is licence of choice of many GNOME libraries. Cheers, -- Juanjo Marín _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
