Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-06-09 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote:


  I believe it is clear, from past board actions (e.g. the snowy
  hackfest) that such services are something we want to encourage, with
  our money and brand, but it seems we only have few developers engaging
  with the web, do you think the GNOME foundation should reach out to
  other communities (Mozilla? Apache? Midguard?) to foster developments
  in this area? (I am particularly interested in Stormy answer, as a
  Mozilla insider).

(and what do you think the board can do wrt this?)

 Pretty ping?


I think that web services are very important (as I've said before.) I also
think we have more people than we think working on them. What we need is an
expanded vision for GNOME (or clarified version of what a desktop means) so
that everyone can work towards the same vision and we can communicate it to
potential partners.

I think without an expanded definition/vision, it's very hard to reach out
to other communities or companies who might work with us.

Stormy
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Re: Question for candidates

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Stallman
The point I was trying to make is that we *do* have an inherent
advantage in bringing practical benefits to users and would be sad to
relinquish that, as I understood RMS was saying.

Someone else pointed out that we have an advantage in bringing
practical benefits to minorities.  That's true, but my point is
different.  My point is that we need to talk about our inherent
_ethical_ advantage that we respect users' freedom.

See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html.

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