On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:29, Jeff Waugh wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:21, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > That is utter crap. How can the "best solution" be something that is > > contradictory to the GNOME spirit? > > > > The GNOME project was born as an effort to create an entirely free > > desktop environment for free systems. > > You're counting out the large chunks of pragmatism and practicality that > are also part of "the GNOME spirit". None of those large chunks has, so far, been so "pragmatic" or "pratical" to suggest it is a best solution to move to non-free libraries, or have them? What you're calling "pragmatic" is, IMHO, short-sight. > Anyway, there's no sense in hearing you complain about it further, > because it's done now, and yes, everyone has always been interested in > doing it with Free tools, and will be in the future. It's on everyone's > minds. I'm sure you will enjoy all of the GU4DEC multimedia stuff when > it has been converted to Speex format anyway. I'm truly looking forward, that's excellent news. And please remember that I didn't limit to complaining. I proposed other ways to do it as well. Regards, Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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