Re: Questions for the candidate

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

David Neary wrote:
> > 10. Should Gnome be marketed as a separate component ? Or should it be
> > actively promoted as a part of the offerings in a commercial software
> > stack ?
> > (Separate component in the sense *a DE in its own way and with its own
> > ecosystem*)
> 
> Separate component. The best thing about GNOME is that it is Free
> Software, and as a project I think it's important we keep that in
> mind.

Reading back on this I think I probably need to explain myself a
bit. I understood the question to be whether GNOME should be
marketed more as a development platform for 3rd party ISVs, or
whether it should be marketed as a complete, free desktop
environment. And of those two, I think that it's more important
to emphasise the complete free desktop environment bit than to
say "look, ISVs, you can make money out of porting your apps to
GNOME or wrapping it in your own Special Juice".

Cheers,
Dave.

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