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Nobody ever got a "command" to start a new GNU package, because GNU package developers are volunteers. When people are interested in starting a GNU package, they talk with me about it and we decide jointly that it is one. In the 1990s that was a very informal process. That's how GNOME was started, except that I think I discussed the need with Miguel before he started it. GNOME was conceived as a GNU package since the beginning, which is why it has the name GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment, initially). The reason why the GNU Project and the FSF help GNOME development, and encourage people to use GNOME both as end users and as application developers, is that helping GNOME is helping GNU. Miguel made important contributions to free software. GNOME was not his first. Then he changed and started neglecting freedom, and finally denigrating it. Neither one cancels the other. But recall how his name came into this discussion: citing what he said in a memoir that he wrote after rejecting the principles of free software. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list