Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-22 Thread guido iodice
2011/5/22 Luca Ferretti : > 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 experience" is very dif

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-21 Thread guido iodice
2011/5/21 Emmanuele Bassi : > 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 projectin

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-21 Thread Guido Iodice
2011/5/21 Emmanuele Bassi : > 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&#x

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-21 Thread Guido Iodice
2011/5/21 Emmanuele Bassi : > the "graphical interface" part is a definition that might have applied > 10 years ago. > > the main lesson learned in these past 10 years is that writing a > "graphical interface" in a vacuum, shielded by layers of abstractions > is not only impossible: it's actively

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

2010-12-31 Thread guido iodice
endola is a very important person in Italy and should become the next prime 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 Sof

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread guido iodice
2010/6/14 Sriram Ramkrishna : > It's reasonably implied that Linux includes the GNU system. > There is no other system that Linux has other than GNU Pardon, but this is not true. I.e. Android has Linux but it has not GNU. It is very different from a GNU/linux distro. > GNU is not the main > pa

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread guido iodice
2010/6/14 Bastien Nocera : > > 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 to have an OS

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread guido iodice
2010/6/14 Stormy Peters : > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Richard Stallman 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), implies that we feel > left

Re: question for candidates

2010-06-11 Thread Guido Iodice
Il giorno gio, 10/06/2010 alle 13.30 +0200, Dodji Seketeli ha scritto: > Do you have public pointers to some of these marketing researches? I am > not trying to tell you "show me the links or shut up". Rather, I think > having those pointers at hand could be interesting for future > references. >

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
ly-proprietary software companies, i.e. Google, Oracle/SUN, Intel, etc. A statement like this: "Sometimes those companies products proprietary software too, and while " is more accurate. ____ G

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