Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

[Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof gnome org>]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:39 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:

Hi Lefty,

> I hesitate to reopen this discussion, frankly. Look at the archives for
> December and January.

We need to consider that that wasn't our community.

In that Alberto has a point that our community itself isn't negative or
hostile towards commercial mobile ecosystems.

Cheers,

Philip

> On 2/22/10 1:12 PM, "Alberto Ruiz" <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
> 
> > 2010/2/22 Lefty (石鏡 ) <lefty shugendo org>:
> >> Well, we've certainly managed to place GNOME at an enormous disadvantage
> >> with respect to an alternative, quasi-open-source platform, like Android,
> >> largely through a couple of years' worth of inattention and, more
> >> importantly, an ongoing failure to engage with the commercial mobile
> >> ecosystem in any positive and meaningful way. Hopefully, some efforts might
> >> be made to correct that in the coming year; whether or not that actually
> >> happens, or will be effective if it does, is very much up in the air in my
> >> mind.
> > 
> > Do you have any examples of the GNOME community being negative or
> > hostile towards the commercial mobile ecosystem?
> > 
> >> The viewpoint held in some quarters which is directly hostile to such
> >> engagement has been a negative factor for us in the past and continues to be
> >> one. Google, for all that its Android efforts have been competitive to
> >> GNOME's interests in the mobile space, has done a much better job here.
> >> 
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