On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:09, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > On the practical terms, as others stated, we should make sure that > GNOME is great software and has cool features that make people /want/ > to use it. > > It's fine to do that, as much as we can. But if we only do that, we > are competing with Apple on its home territory. We have no inherent > advantage in this; Apple is has contempt for its users, but we can > hardly claim its developers lack ability. > > The one area where we have an inherent advantage is in treating the > users ethically.
What about translations, accessibility and other needs of minorities? For big companies it's *impossible* to support those needs but for community-developed software that's just what we do. And free software is what enables communities to get together and do the software they need. I think it would be sad to focus just on the ethical argument when we have so much practical potential that can help us engage first-time users. Regards, Tomeu > Neither Apple nor Microsoft will ever match us in > this. Shall we not make plans to utilize this advantage and increase > it? > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
