On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:22 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:06 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > >> Is the GNU system for programmers only ? I doubt that is what you > >> mean. > > > > I'm sure it isn't. > > I know :-), I'm just pointing out that's what it looked like. > > > The software for the mobile devices has to be written by programmers. > > > > If the programmers write the software on desktop computers then we want > > them to be using GNOME while they do it. > > > > If programmers have to use some other desktop environment when writing > > the application, they'll want to have that same environment on their > > mobile devices, and that will have an impact on GNOME's usage. > > I'm really not worried about programmers desktops - GNU/Linux is so > widespread in the technical fields that this is a battle we are > already doing well in (not as well as I'd like, I'm still massively > irritated by how many of my programmer colleagues think it's > acceptable to use a freedom-hurting Apple laptop/desktop, but I > digress).
As we're in the nitpick thread, you're putting people running any software on Apple hardware in the same basket. My Mac runs Linux, always has. It's a shame I can't get custom designed hardware designed as easily as I can software. > The goal we should be aiming for is freedom for all computer > users, and like it or not, the majority of computer uses in the next 5 > years will be on phones and tablets. > > To pretend otherwise and focus on PC-style devices is trying to gain > traction in a shrinking market, which outside of business use will > soon be irrelevant. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
