Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience

[Wayne Schuller <k_wayne linuxpower org>]

hi all,

On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 19:25, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> > GNOME is not supposed to treat all operating systems equally.  A GNU
> > package exists to be part of one particular operating system, GNU.
> > Every GNU package should focus primarily on making GNU (and GNU/Linux)
> > a better system.
> 
> No, Richard, although I know your opinion on user relations (see my
> .sig...), we (as the GNOME project) _are_ here to give something to
> _users_, and to give them what they want. 
> 

I think it is unhelpful for people to keep spreading this Stallman quote
without a reference to the whole speech, so we can read it in context.

Does anybody have the speech?

My understanding from RMS is that his point was about making software
freedom a priority for Gnome. This makes good sense.

Unless we can see the quote in context, it's very unhelpful to keep
using.

thanks,
wayne