On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:06 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> Is the GNU system for programmers only ? I doubt that is what you >> mean. > > I'm sure it isn't. I know :-), I'm just pointing out that's what it looked like. > The software for the mobile devices has to be written by programmers. > > If the programmers write the software on desktop computers then we want > them to be using GNOME while they do it. > > If programmers have to use some other desktop environment when writing > the application, they'll want to have that same environment on their > mobile devices, and that will have an impact on GNOME's usage. I'm really not worried about programmers desktops - GNU/Linux is so widespread in the technical fields that this is a battle we are already doing well in (not as well as I'd like, I'm still massively irritated by how many of my programmer colleagues think it's acceptable to use a freedom-hurting Apple laptop/desktop, but I digress). The goal we should be aiming for is freedom for all computer users, and like it or not, the majority of computer uses in the next 5 years will be on phones and tablets. To pretend otherwise and focus on PC-style devices is trying to gain traction in a shrinking market, which outside of business use will soon be irrelevant. Jeremy. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
