Re: [Off Topic] We need "Vendor"s? [was Words to Avoid "Vendor"]
- From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms gnu org>
- To: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>
- Cc: foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Off Topic] We need "Vendor"s? [was Words to Avoid "Vendor"]
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:06:41 -0500
> We want to encourage non-free apps to use GNOME, but we don't want to
> appear to grant those non-free apps ethical legitimacy. We have to
> choose our words with care to achieve both goals at once.
These are your priorities. Other people have other priorities, though they
have the same aims. It's a difference of strategy, not of ideology.
I think it is a difference of values. Not everyone involved with GNOME
thinks that free vs proprietary software is a matter of right vs wrong.
That is precisely why I'm looking for like-minded candidates to
endorse for the board.
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