Re: New York Times story (GNOME Foundation == OSF??)

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Hi Mark,

I agree that the NYTimes story makes the foundation sound too much like
an industry consortium.  I was one of the people who briefed John Markoff
and gave him an accurate overview of what the foundation is all about.
The reality is that the big news here is that all these major companies
are joining the GNOME movement, and of course, the biggest news so far is
that Sun is adopting GNOME as the desktop for Solaris.

But I do think the press release, as it currently stands, adequately
describes the different roles of the hackers and the corporate advisors.

The reason I didn't comment on the story is that it was 1:30 am and I
wanted to go to sleep :)

Bart



Mark Galassi wrote:

> I am unhappy with this story.  It looks like the announcement of
> OSF/Motif teaming up against OpenLook (and vice-versa) might have
> looked fifteen years ago.
>
> The story should have made it clear that the foundation consists of a
> group of hackers who *might* be working for these companies.  Emphasis
> could have been put on how many of them GNOME developers do not work
> for free software business, and that the crucial work was done before
> business (except maybe Red Hat) stepped in.
>
> I am also surprised that Bart reports the NYTimes story without
> expressing displeasure at how they spun it.
>
> In another article I see Bart saying that:
>
> > As I have indicated before, it mentions the corporate advisory board
> > members fairly prominently, since we believe that this is a big part
> > of the news story.
>
> I think that tomorrow's statement should be urgently amended to
> de-emphasize the corporate partners and to emphasize the volunteer
> hacker contribution.
>
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