How do Open Source projects differ from the above?
In two very important ways. Firstly, OSPs have no
time-bound. That is, there is no deadline whereby
the next version of GNOME has to be delivered, "or
I agree entirely with your argument, but the words raise a background
issue so important I have to make a correction.
GNOME is part of the GNU Project, and we are part of the Free Software
movement, not the Open Source movement. We and they do similar
things, and we can work together in practice, but our philosophical
reasons are as different as could be.
Could you kindly cite GNOME as an example of the Free Software
movement, not one of the Open Source movement? Please don't
spread the idea that the latter one includes all of us.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
for more explanation of the difference between the two movements.
