On Sun, January 6, 2013 9:20 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: > There are some things that we must not tolerate on any pretext. > Spyware is one of them.
I agree with this sentiment, and am glad you are raising the issue. I liked the post you wrote, which I discuss with Bradley on our oggcast. To raise it here in this thread is definitely off topic, as others have said. I do think it's important to point out flaws in GNU/Linux distributions and the FSF serves its role well in that capacity. GNOME like all projects that are part of GNU is free software and can be used by anybody for any purpose. A lot of these communities have all sorts of participants, from hacker hobbyists to companies that sell various products around them, many of which involve proprietary software, spyware and all kinds of bad stuff. Our communities are stronger for having diverse participation, and the body of free software keeps growing because of this. Take GCC, for example. And the LGPL. What's important on the GNOME Foundations list is that you help us stay focused on GNOME and keeping it free. I hope Canonical does the right thing with Ubuntu going forward. It's right to call them out on it, but the GNOME foundations list isn't the venue for it unless for some reason GNOME starts including spyware too (which we won't!!). I also really hope that Canonical keeps contributing to help make GNOME better. karen _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list