Re: question for candidates

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stallman
Your message made me aware of the GNOME Ambassadors program, so I read the page http://live.gnome.org/Ambassadors to learn about it. There is a subtle but deep difference between the goal stated in that page, To ... teach people the advantages of using a free desktop, and teaching them the idea

Re: A few questions for the candidates

2010-06-07 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 06/01/2010 02:30 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting for Friday while the voting period is already opened is waiting a long time and I'm not being patient here :-)

Re: LWN.net

2010-06-07 Thread Stormy Peters
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:         * LWN.net agreement - status               o The GNOME Foundation received the legal agreement from the                 lawyers and this has been shared this with LWN. Once this                 is finalized, work with

Re: question for candidates

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stallman
People and corporations will not choose Free Software (or Open Source, or any derivative flavour) because it's free. Stating that as a broad, universal claim goes against the facts. Many people have already chosen free software precisely for the sake of freedom. So have some national and

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Stallman
I would think it being fine to say, GNOME is: - Linux kernel - D-Bus - NetworkManager/BlueZ/PolicyKit/udisks/upower - X11 all the way to GTK+/Clutter combination and apps It seems like stretching things that a GUI desktop includes all the lower level facilities it runs on.

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-07 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:    I would think it being fine to say, GNOME is:    - Linux kernel    - D-Bus    - NetworkManager/BlueZ/PolicyKit/udisks/upower    - X11    all the way to GTK+/Clutter combination and apps It seems like stretching things