If you say that SUN has majority seats in GNOME governing/advisory board or at least 'veto' right then we could close this topic and work on our current voluntary projects peacefully.
Uros ---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:51:34 +0100 > From: Calum.Benson at Sun.COM > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Fwd: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release > team please stand up) > > > On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:33, Uros Nedic wrote: > >> >>> The only real difference here is looking for GNOME RE team to make >>> a statement >>> defining that they are ONLY focused on Linux... I reckon this won't >>> happen. >> >> That is what I wanted to stress in this that post. >> >> Maybe, alternative is that SUN appears as one of major sponsors and >> put 'our/their' >> guys in their governing board (alanc, etc.), so we could secure our >> future. > > Sun is already one of the major financial sponsors of many GNOME > activities, and has seats on the GNOME Advisory Board and the GNOME > Foundation board of directors. So to be honest, I think we're already > as well represented in those arenas as we could reasonably expect to > be, especially if this discussion ever reaches that level. (Which I > think it would probably have to; I can't see how it would be up to the > GNOME release team to set that kind of direction for the whole GNOME > project.) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org _________________________________________________________________ Share your memories online with anyone you want. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/products/photos-share.aspx?tab=1
