Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Stallman
The point I was trying to make was that HTML 5 (or more formally some of the API's for javascript for accessing local storage), among other things, enables offline use of web applications. This sounds both interesting and dangerous. Maybe it would let you explicitly install a

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-06 Thread Jim Gettys
Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:51 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: I'm doing a huge [CUT] here, I hope you don't mind? People like Google work *hard* on latency and understand every byte counts (among many other things: go look at the google talks by their engineers on the topic).

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Stallman
See http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono for details. That article is a load of crap, a package of half truths. You are entitled to your opinion, but I think you're wrong. I invite people to read it and judge for themselves. Some of the points in the article -- not all -- deal with

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Stallman
It is not a matter of ostracizing anyone. We are glad that they use GNOME, but we must not say we are entirely happy about them as long as they contain non-free programs. But we are closely associated with these organizations. (Your original email said we should make