I enjoyed reading everyone's responses.
And while I agree with Jason that a mailing list is not the best way to
reach a proposal and consensus, I do think it's really important for us to
have this discussion as a project and for everyone to be able to follow
along.
I just have a few thoughts I'd
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.comwrote:
* The desktop market is not growing. We can continue to define ourselves
as a desktop but that's not a growing market. I'm not talking about Linux
versus Windows, I'm talking about desktop vs mobile. The average
I'm not talking about Linux
versus Windows,
Linux and Windows are not comparable: Windows is a complete operating
system, but Linux is just a kernel. I think you must have in mind
the rivalry between Windows and the GNU/Linux system.
When what you're really talking about is GNU, please
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
GNU/Linux is mostly used on PCs, but we want it to be used on tablets
and phones too. Thus, making GNOME work well on those machines is
useful. However, until the day people prefer to do programming on a
tablet, the
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:06 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
GNU/Linux is mostly used on PCs, but we want it to be used on tablets
and phones too. Thus, making GNOME work well on those machines is
useful. However, until
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net 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
On 27 November 2012 19:51, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
When what you're really talking about is GNU, please don't call it
Linux -- particularly in the context of a GNU activity such as this
ne. We started GNOME so that GNU/Linux would have a 100% free
software desktop environment,
