> A. Try to make GNOME better in practical ways too.
>
> B. Teach him to appreciate freedom, so he will recognize that the
> proprietary programs are inherently inferior ethically.
however, point B is pretty much like saying that instead of coming up
with Copyleft you shoul
I value the potential market we can cater as highly important, as this
directly determines the size of the economical ecosystem we can build
around F/OSS. While most of us are not in this to become rich, we all
have to eat and feed the bills. If we want our project to have
signi
If the freedom offered needs to be taught and be appreciated, there is a
fundamentally flaw with that. True freedom should be obvious once it is
tasted.
If we had made that our criterion, it would have led us to reject many
past advances in our understanding of human rights. Society
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:40 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
Hi there,
> I agree with Frade, for example among my university friends facebook is
> quite important, it's how you interact with a lot of people you don't
> see daily and some times the way to find out about meetings, parties,
> et
El jue, 25-02-2010 a las 22:29 +0200, Ivan Frade escribió:
> Hi,
>
> The big idea behind GNOME3 can be to offer a completely new User
> Experience. GNOME2 did well with the usual Menus/panel/folders
> approach, it brought stability, performance and we built the basic
> blocks of a Desktop. Now co
Hi,
The big idea behind GNOME3 can be to offer a completely new User
Experience. GNOME2 did well with the usual Menus/panel/folders approach, it
brought stability, performance and we built the basic blocks of a Desktop.
Now comes the time to use those blocks to revamp how the user interact with
i
2010/2/25 Stormy Peters :
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Juanjo Marin
> wrote:
>>
>> This thread is about how can we set a strategic roadmap. It is more
>> about innovation vs stability. We are doing pretty well on the stability
>> side with our six-months cycle schedule. We are even addi
As an Open Source for America member, GNOME has been invited to comment on
the US government's use of technology.
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OnOn Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:26 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> A free computing environment is always better than proprietary
> alternatives. It is better ethically and socially, because of
> freedom. Of course, we would like to make it better in practical ways
> too. But we should not treat fr
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Juanjo Marin wrote:
>
> This thread is about how can we set a strategic roadmap. It is more
> about innovation vs stability. We are doing pretty well on the stability
> side with our six-months cycle schedule. We are even adding some
> innovation, but we must find
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:27 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I tried to keep myself out of the philosophical debate this time, but
it's reaching new levels of purism with zero regard for pragmatism.
[CUT]
> I don't think anyone suggested that we should not bother trying to
> make GNOME convenient
On 02/25/10 02:26 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
B. Teach him to appreciate freedom, so he will recognize that the
proprietary programs are inherently inferior ethically.
If the freedom offered needs to be taught and be appreciated, there is a
fundamentally flaw with that. True freedom should
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:27 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> but it will never capture a significant market, which in the
> end just means that you'll slowly become irrelevant.
>
> Is your standard of relevance based solely on "market" success?
>
> Only a few percent of computer users run
2010/2/25 Richard Stallman :
> A. Try to make GNOME better in practical ways too.
>
> B. Teach him to appreciate freedom, so he will recognize that the
> proprietary programs are inherently inferior ethically.
>
> It makes sense to work on both of them in parallel, according
> to the opportunities
How about a healthy dose of ambition and aim for becoming the best
platform of choice, regardless of the freeness?
If you mean that we would like GNOME to be better than the other
desktops in practical terms, of course we would like that.
That is an answer to the question, "Where would we
While freedom is an important factor in life, it is not the only
defining factor for quality of life. At the end of the day, most of us
want a certain level of comfort too.
We need a strong vision and strategy to become best of breed in
software. Merely being free will only ple
Freedom from slavery is a means to an
end, the "end" being a just society with no racial discrimination and
equal opportunity for all.
Freedom is not merely a means to achieve something else. It is
necessary in its own right. Mere equality of opport
but none has actually stepped up to write actual code (as Martyn says,
everytime you start writting something, you hit the legacy wall).
It sounds like this might be a case of conflicting goals that cannot
all be satisfied. If so, we might be able to enable progress to start
by making a d
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