RMS:
On 11/19/12 03:32 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
I respect that those artists who create digital art should have
mechanisms to "own" their artwork or to control how it should be
consumed or presented.
This is why we started the DefectiveByDesign.org. I suggest making
GNOME in
On 11/19/2012 08:57 AM, Stéphane Raimbault wrote:
> If we need a marketing director to convince people to use GNOME, we failed.
This is a cute statement, but is it really true?
The people that could most benefit from our choice to build a "simple to
use" system are those that are least likely to
I respect that those artists who create digital art should have
mechanisms to "own" their artwork or to control how it should be
consumed or presented.
DRM is a scheme to restrict the public. This deserves opposition and
defeat -- not "respect". DRM additionally attacks the free soft
Another big area is applications. We are working on a new suite of
core applications, which are designed in accordance with our
high-level goals (cloud integration is a key objective here).
Anything designed using the term "cloud" is taking a risk
of encouraging practices that are abus
RMS:
On 11/17/12 07:53 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Tools that use non-free technologies like Skype or
> Vonage are not just popular, but a requirement for many people who
pay
> for such services. How many average people would purchase a device
>
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 17:57 +0100, Stéphane Raimbault wrote:
> It's not acceptable after 3 iterations to ignore/reject the most
> frequent complaints (I don't want to list them here...).
I don't believe in design by committee.
Software development is not a popularity contest.
Also, some questiona
2012/11/15 Karen Sandler
> On Thu, November 15, 2012 2:39 pm, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > Hi Karen,
> >
> > I think these are good suggestions. But I think it would be a mistake to
> > leave this critical responsibility to a committee of volunteers. One of
> > the
> > many challenges we face is
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>
> As is available on the page referenced in every communication about the
>> removal of fallback?
>> https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode
>>
>> If people skip reading it intentionally, they'll only se
