On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 20:18 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > How much do you think 'pure' resonates with, say, my Mum? Let's start from > the top: She doesn't understand or care about software freedom, and getting > her to use GNOME should not depend on that understanding. So, 'pure' as a > concept isn't that useful.
As applied to "freedom" you're probably right - _however_, I think the idea does potentially have marketing value. We have a market where lots of people are delivering different versions of GNOME - some very similar to the baseline software, some slightly different. I'm sure we can all name UI changes that are made, from artwork to larger functional changes, and that is something which is pretty incompatible with the traditional idea of resale (the idea of trade marks, for example, doesn't work as well in this scenario - e.g., Firefox is free software, but they don't let people distribute it as such and keep the brand, which I think is a mistake). It's also something that we probably don't want to particularly discourage, since GNOME is Free Software. But, there is certainly an idea of what is 'GNOME', which is the ultimately pure version, and those versions that are modified and redistributed. I guess this is actually veering towards what Luis wrote on the GNOME 3.0 page wrt. Goals and Organisation (the standardisation stuff). Cheers, Alex. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list