On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:20 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
>
> Personally, I think we are delighted that they decided to use GNOME.
> We aren't praising the proprietary software but expressing happiness
> that they have decided to use free software that we have developed.
>
> My impression
The meeting minutes for the January 7th board meeting is now public.
Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes/20100107
Other past board meetings are archived here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes
-- text of the latest minutes follows --
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:20 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I think we gain more by being excited and asking them to join our
> community, meet us, learn more about free software, etc than if we
> temper it down. When you praise someone that's learning something, you
> don't say "that's ok but it'
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Stormy Peters
wrote:
Personally, I think we are delighted that they decided to use GNOME.
We aren't praising the proprietary software but expressing happiness
that they have decided to use free software that we have developed.
My impression is that the communit
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> In response to the first draft, I pointed out that it rejected the
> ideas of the free software movement, and the only form of support it
> gave was use of the term "free software" itself. Your new draft
> cancels out that little support
In response to the first draft, I pointed out that it rejected the
ideas of the free software movement, and the only form of support it
gave was use of the term "free software" itself. Your new draft
cancels out that little support, by pairing the term with "open source".
To fit GNOME's position
On Jan 19, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
wrote:
Also, the examples were just that, examples. I should have not put
Lefty inside them as that was not necessary. Apologies if it looked
like I was attacking Lefty.
No worries. I'm pretty used to being accused of things I haven't
On 19/01/10 02:49, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:08 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
On 15/01/10 17:31, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:47 -0500, john palmieri wrote:
You always seem to devolve into ad-hominem, personal attacks.
When a person falsely acc
Hi, I'm not a Foundation member, but I would like to do some
suggestions:
> > The GNOME Foundation believes in free software and promotes free software
> > but
> > that does not mean that GNOME is anti-proprietary software. We believe,
> > promote, use and write free software.
This is a self c
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 01:49 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:08 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 15/01/10 17:31, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:47 -0500, john palmieri wrote:
> > >> You always seem to devolve into ad-hominem, personal attack
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