Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-15 Thread PICCORO McKAY Lenz
Hllo Benoit, Tobias, Charlie an rest of mal list, please read carefully! From: Bruno F?lix Rezende Ribeiro oitofe...@gnu.org many GNU and Freeoft followers an zealots are blinken about their mission, in the flisol in Venezuela, in presentations all are using win-buntu, so Charlie got a point,

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-14 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Em Tue, 13 May 2014 23:30:05 +0200 Benoît Minisini gam...@users.sourceforge.net escreveu: Tobias has a point there. If becoming a GNU project means that the code must be rewritten to follow the GNU's C notation standard, then I can't agree. I don't have the time to do that. Not that I

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-14 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Em Tue, 13 May 2014 23:30:05 +0200 Benoît Minisini gam...@users.sourceforge.net escreveu: If becoming a GNU project means that the code must be rewritten to follow the GNU's C notation standard, then I can't agree. I don't have the time to do that. I've contacted the GNU evaluation team

[Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Hello Gambas community! The GNU project[1] aims to develop the GNU system: an Unix-like operating system that is entirely free software[2]. It was launched in 1984, marking the beginning of the free software movement and has been ever since the pivotal point of philosophical, legal and technical

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 05/13/2014 04:00 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: Hello Gambas community! The GNU project[1] aims to develop the GNU system: an Unix-like operating system that is entirely free software[2]. It was launched in 1984, marking the beginning of the free software movement and has been

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Tobias Boege
On Tue, 13 May 2014, Bruno F??lix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: Hello Gambas community! The GNU project[1] aims to develop the GNU system: an Unix-like operating system that is entirely free software[2]. It was launched in 1984, marking the beginning of the free software movement and has been

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Charlie Reinl
On Tue, 13 May 2014 17:00:19 -0300, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro oitofe...@gnu.org wrote: Hello Gambas community! The GNU project[1] aims to develop the GNU system: an Unix-like operating system that is entirely free software[2]. It was launched in 1984, marking the beginning of the free

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Rob Kudla
On 05/13/2014 04:34 PM, Kevin Fishburne wrote: On 05/13/2014 04:00 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: [...] as a member of the GNU project I want to invite the Gambas community to join the GNU community, making Gambas a GNU package[4] and thence the official implementation of the Basic

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
It's also worth to add that Gambas being part of GNU will ease the adoption of programs written in Gambas by the GNU project and then further increase the visibility of Gambas language and its interpreter. My other two cents ;-) -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix)

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 13/05/2014 23:01, Tobias Boege a écrit : Doing missionary work, eh? All the promised fame and migration work aside (that would surely work out somehow), I'm not happy with the GNU Coding standards thing. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of them - one reason being alone that it hurts in

Re: [Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

2014-05-13 Thread Randall Morgan
I too have mixed feelings about GNU. However, without them I doubt there would be as much OSS as there is today. In that respect and support them. But they do force their will on the projects under them and while I understand the need for following standards, I don't like that they try to dictate