Re: Certification for GNOME apps

[Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran member fsf org>]

Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> writes:
> [...]"certification levels" for GNOME
> [...]ISVs are starting to develop GNOME-ish apps (c.f. Adobe Acrobat
> Reader).

GNOME hackers are working on free software replacements for Acrobat and many
other pieces of proprietary software.  

Telling Adobe how to improve Acrobat makes the job of the Gpdf and Evince
developers more difficult.  (plus any other GNOME pdf viewer projects.)

"Is free software" should be a requirement, not "a level".

-- 
Ciarán O'Riordan,                              |   Support FSFE's work against
http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/             | software patents by becomming
                                               |     a Fellow: http://fsfe.org