Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-22 Thread guido iodice
2011/5/22 Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org: How should we test all the stuff needed for a first class experience (hardware support, drivers, ecc)? This is a very interesting question. I have many computers and I help other users to install and configure GNU/Linux on their PCs. The user

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-21 Thread Guido Iodice
2011/5/21 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: On 2011-05-21 at 22:11, Guido Iodice wrote: So, locking GNOME to Fedora is simply short-sighted first of all: at no point in my email I talked about Linux-only, and least of all, at no point I've written Fedora. so that's that, and I think you're

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-21 Thread guido iodice
2011/5/21 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: On 2011-05-21 at 23:18, Guido Iodice wrote: first of all: at no point in my email I talked about Linux-only, and least of all, at no point I've written Fedora. so that's that, and I think you're projecting the flamewar on d-d-l here — so I'll

Re: CENATIC Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010

2010-12-31 Thread guido iodice
minister candidate for center-left coalition. We hope Vendola realized his mistake: he now seems committed to Free Software. Regards. Guido Iodice, blogger, GNOME user, Associazione Software Libero - Italy Member. [1] http://bazaar.canonical.com/en

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread guido iodice
2010/6/14 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: Millions of people now say Linux Millions of people believed the earth was flat, but they wrong :) and GNU/Linux is harder to say, uglier sounding (hard G's are not easy),

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread guido iodice
2010/6/14 Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net: I'll add that people writing KDE or GNOME don't push for a GNOME/GNU/Linux, or even GNOME/X.org/GNU/Linux. Just mentioning GNU/Linux is disingenious. Well, but merging GNU and Linux (or GNU and FreeBSD kernel...) we have an OS. KDE is not sufficient

Re: question for candidates

2010-06-10 Thread guido iodice
Dear Mr.Nocera and Mr.Stallman, as GNOME and FLOSS fan I would like say something about this: RMS: Many people have already chosen free software precisely for the sake of freedom. So have some national and regional governments. BN: They chose it first because it matches their requirements,

Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

2010-01-19 Thread Guido Iodice
. A statement like this: Sometimes those companies products proprietary software too, and while is more accurate. GUIDO IODICE guido.iod...@gmail.com http://guiodic.wordpress.com http://www.linuxqualityhelp.it

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-17 Thread guido iodice
Hi to all. I'm not a GNOME Foundation member, then I apologize for this e-mail. But as enthusiastic GNOME user, I would like to send you my opinion. First at all: thank you Richard Stallman and Miguel De Icaza for GNOME idea. Thank you Miguel for GNOME hacking and for Mono too. Thank you RMS for