Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]certification levels for GNOME
[...]ISVs are starting to develop GNOME-ish apps (c.f. Adobe Acrobat
Reader).
GNOME hackers are working on free software replacements for Acrobat and many
other pieces of proprietary software.
Telling
Jody Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- More importantly it is already a de-facto standard by virtue of
MS's dominant market position.
MS's next file formats might be widely used, but it's worth noting that MS
are not using the ECMA approved OOXML. They're using a slightly different
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So if
you want a research grant from the European Union, you're forced to be
using Windows...
More precisely, you're forced to use Windows plus the EC's proprietary
editor -or- GNU/Linux plus VMware plus the EC's proprietary editor.
Apologies if this has already been discussed (but if it has, the webpage
needs to be updated).
Does the board still have regular (phone) meetings? And if there are
minutes, and if they are published, where can I find them?
Thanks.
http://foundation.gnome.org/about/
The Board of Directors
Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3b. If you can't get to 100%, you'll need to remove/rewrite all code by
authors you can't contact or who refuse permission.
It would also be worth asking the lawyers who worked on Mozilla's change of
licence. For authors who refuse permission, the above
suspected of such a treasonous plan
No one has been accused of having a treasonous plan.
You've helped the free software community significantly with your Glade work
(thanks!). Changing the licence to LGPL would partially undo that help,
which would be unfortunate, so hopefully this licence
Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org writes:
I see it as receiving a
convenience in exchange for an agreement.
More specifically, it's receiving a percentage of sales money in return for
helping to promote Amazon.
Another way of seeing it: the opposite of a boycott.
Ignoring Amazon for a
Putting aside, for a minute, the interpretations, elaborations and
rewordings, it's funny how similar the actual suggestions are:
Lefty says:
if any instances of
promotion of non-free software should actually occur, they can be dealt
with when they do, on a case-by-case basis.
That's a rule
Lefty (石鏡 ) le...@shugendo.org writes:
a statement which represents the Foundation (which is, as Stormy has
pointed out, no more than its members)
This doesn't mean that the Foundation speaks for each of its members. The
Foundation speaks for itself and GNOME.
GNOME has a policy (written or
Lefty (石鏡 ) le...@shugendo.org writes:
Open source doesn't imply any reason or policy for rejecting
proprietary software...
I'm afraid I really have to disagree here: open source software is
software which is made available under a license which satisfies the Open
Source Definition
The
Og Maciel ogmac...@gnome.org writes:
The way I see it, GNOME equals good, valuable software and freedom of
choice.
Hi,
Can you say what freedom of choice means?
Is it the freedom to choose between various software packages, i.e Will I
choose to use Flash or Silverlight?
Or is it always
Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org writes:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
As long as the mistake continues to be common, we need to keep up the
efforts to educate people. I wish we could get this done once and for
all, so that we could move on.
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