On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:39 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: Hi Lefty,
> I hesitate to reopen this discussion, frankly. Look at the archives for > December and January. We need to consider that that wasn't our community. In that Alberto has a point that our community itself isn't negative or hostile towards commercial mobile ecosystems. Cheers, Philip > On 2/22/10 1:12 PM, "Alberto Ruiz" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2010/2/22 Lefty (石鏡 ) <[email protected]>: > >> Well, we've certainly managed to place GNOME at an enormous disadvantage > >> with respect to an alternative, quasi-open-source platform, like Android, > >> largely through a couple of years' worth of inattention and, more > >> importantly, an ongoing failure to engage with the commercial mobile > >> ecosystem in any positive and meaningful way. Hopefully, some efforts might > >> be made to correct that in the coming year; whether or not that actually > >> happens, or will be effective if it does, is very much up in the air in my > >> mind. > > > > Do you have any examples of the GNOME community being negative or > > hostile towards the commercial mobile ecosystem? > > > >> The viewpoint held in some quarters which is directly hostile to such > >> engagement has been a negative factor for us in the past and continues to > >> be > >> one. Google, for all that its Android efforts have been competitive to > >> GNOME's interests in the mobile space, has done a much better job here. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-list mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- 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
