On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 17:34 -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the familiar
ISV, at least the reader may clue in by association and context.
ISD would
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On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote:
Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the familiar
ISV, at least the
Vincent Untz wrote:
[I removed all the cc]
On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote:
Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:
Does ISV stand for Independent Software Vendor? If so, the term is
often misleading, because the most important developers of GNOME
applications--those developing free software--are mostly not vendors.
The important point is the need for clear
And as an individual, I think that choice of word did fail.
Whenever I saw/read ISV in any context in GNOME, I thought of it
as issues concerning businesses only, not myself as a *user* of
the GNOME libraries, etc. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
No indeed you were not. Count me in :)
So
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 14:55 +, Alan Horkan wrote:
We can't solve the problem by denying it.
No one is denying the power of words but matters of linguistics are
distracting from more important issues (like the need for clear
information and heading off patent threats).
Actually, the
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:26:05PM +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
In GNOME we donpt talk usually about first-party and second-party
developers AFAIK (I have only heard of beer-parties). But we talsk about
GNOME developers and GNOME hackers, in this context I find more
appropriate Independent Software
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:48:31PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
Businesses require more than an email client and a web browser, they
require the highly vertical applications that enable them to carry
out their business. These may be as simple as inventory control or
as complex as an
Candidacy Questions
[My apologies for answering these so late; I've been on vacation and
away from email since they were posted.]
1) Why are you running for Board of Directors?
Because I care very deeply about the future of GNOME and the future of
Free Software (which I feel are fairly
Many of the candidates have identified software patents as a major
threat. Would GNOME like to help in the campaign against the new
IPR enforcement directive in the EU? A prominent link to FFII's
page about this would be pretty effective, and easy to do.
I would be happy to help out. As Jonathan mentions, Murray and I have
been sorting through some of the issues on live.gnome.org by putting
together an Interface Specification that is hopefully useful to ISV's
Does ISV stand for Independent Software Vendor? If so, the term
is often
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:22 -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
Many of the candidates have identified software patents as a major
threat. Would GNOME like to help in the campaign against the new
IPR enforcement directive in the EU? A prominent link to FFII's
page about this would be pretty
quote who=Richard M. Stallman
I would be happy to help out. As Jonathan mentions, Murray and I have
been sorting through some of the issues on live.gnome.org by putting
together an Interface Specification that is hopefully useful to ISV's
Does ISV stand for Independent Software
On 11/26/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Richard M. Stallman
Does ISV stand for Independent Software Vendor? If so, the term
is often misleading, because the most important developers of GNOME
applications--those developing free software--are mostly not vendors.
We use
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Why are you running for Board of Directors? What will you do more or
better than previous years Boards have done?
Why am I running? Because I need the exercise. (-:
More seriously, I am running because I am passionately involved
On 11/25/05, Jonathan Blandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Additionally, we need to push our ISV platform. This is one of the
biggest issues facing us, and as big an effort as getting GNOME 2.0 out
was. We should start another group to work on this (similar to the
release team) and for this
El lun, 21-11-2005 a las 20:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Hi,
With the recent announcement of candidates, questions for candidates to
discuss during these week is here. Questions are gathered from previous
years' questions, from foundation-list, and this and previous years'
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) Why are you running for Board of Directors? What will you do more or
better than previous years Boards have done?
I've had a year off after two years on. So I understand the workings of the
Board from the inside and have watched it from the outside with and
quote who=Juha Siltala
What do you think of the composition of the current board, where a couple
of big companies hold half of the chairs?
I trust those individuals as members of the GNOME Foundation and community,
*and* as representatives of companies that contribute a great deal to GNOME
(in
Hi,
Answering these questions is a lot harder than what I had expected :-)
Please ask for clarifications if I'm not clear (which is quite possible),
or tell me I'm wrong if it's the case.
On Tue, November 22, 2005 02:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Why are you running for Board of Directors?
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