On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 23:35 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > To cooperate formally with a Linux Foundation event would run into a > > problem -- they would probably want to call the GNU/Linux system > > "Linux", and we should not accept that. > > I look forward to the FSF's financial contributions to GNOME > conferences. > > The truth is not for sale. GNOME was launched by the GNU Project to > be part of the GNU system. That system is still GNU, and calling it > "Linux" is bad for GNU, including GNOME.
Care to expand on that? Miguel's history of the GNOME project doesn't make a lot of mention of GNU: https://web.archive.org/web/20131106035732/http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html Namely, a discussion with you about his plans, the use of GNU licenses, and an announcement on a GNU mailing-list. What else did the GNU project and/or the FSF do for GNOME? One thing that it could do though, is update the screenshot of some ancient version of GNOME on the front page: http://www.gnu.org/ Where the stock GNOME logo used for the menu has been replaced by some sort of Celtic knot. > I'd definitely want the GNOME Foundation Board to accept one of its > sponsors using "Linux" > > I agree, but that is a different subject. We were talking about > holding GUADEC in combination with a Linux Foundation event -- not about > merely accepting sponsorship. Guess I wasn't clear enough for you, and I'll rephrase so it's clearer: I'd definitely want the GNOME Foundation Board to accept co-hosting an event with one of its sponsors that uses "Linux" and not GNU/Linux if it meant the durability of those GNOME conferences. They support Free Software as well. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
