Re: GNOME strongly supports open standards including OpenDocument Format

["Richard M. Stallman" <rms gnu org>]

    For example, people still feel that by default GNOME should ship with
    stuff that makes it easy to encode to mp3 or rip CD's for their hardware
    devices that do not support open formats; or that GNOME should play
    DVD's.

I think there is a misunderstanding--we are not talking about those
issues, not now.  The issue at hand is encouraging governments to
switch to free formats.

    Maybe a check with the developer base is needed first ?

There is no time for that, and fortunately no need.

							    Putting up such
    a statement as the Foundation and then having a lot of developers
    disagree with it in practice seems a bad situation to be in.

Not to worry, we know that won't happen on this issue.


As for inclusion of code for MP3s and DVDs, I think everyone here
would be in favor of that, as long as that code is free software.  But
there are places where we cannot do this, because the government serves
the forces of injustice.