Re: Open Letter to the IT community, the GNOME Foundation, and Niel McGovern

2019-10-02 Thread Alex
Back in around 2015, I removed GNOME from all my machines. I made that decision because I was disappointed with the way in which the project was headed, and I was not the only one. The main complaint was that the GNOME project does not listen to its users, and I, in my disappointment, came to

Re: Open Letter to the IT community, the GNOME Foundation, and Niel McGovern

2019-10-02 Thread Jake D. Parsons via foundation-list
So, where else do I go to for the serious misconduct of a GNOME Foundation member? Considering the calls for subversion of organizations I respect from the GNOME community, which may or may not be represenative of the majority, why would I want to be a member, of what is proving to be, your

Re: Open Letter to the IT community, the GNOME Foundation, and Niel McGovern

2019-10-02 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
To the Foundation membership: please don't dignify this rant with a response. The poster is not even a Foundation member. Federico ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Open Letter to the IT community, the GNOME Foundation, and Niel McGovern

2019-10-02 Thread Jake D. Parsons via foundation-list
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 2:25:22 P.M. EDT you wrote: > Neil's blog post, for those missing it: > https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/ > > For my part, I want to apologize to everyone involved in GNOME for not > pushing GNOME to formally sever its ties with

Re: Open Letter to the IT community, the GNOME Foundation, and Niel McGovern

2019-10-02 Thread Luis Villa
Neil's blog post, for those missing it: https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/ For my part, I want to apologize to everyone involved in GNOME for not pushing GNOME to formally sever its ties with GNU a decade ago, which is the first time in my email archives I

Open Letter to the IT community, the GNOME Foundation, and Niel McGovern

2019-10-02 Thread Jake D. Parsons via foundation-list
Greetings; I attached a text file with the text that gave me my basis for this accusation from Neil McGovern' s blog: Liberal Musings. I call for Neil McGovern to step down from his position as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation for the betterment of software freedom, basic