Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey
- From: Guido Iodice <guido iodice gmail com>
- To: foundation-list <foundation-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:11:45 +0100
Hi, I'm not a Foundation member, but I would like to do some suggestions:
> The GNOME Foundation believes in free software and promotes free software but
> that does not mean that GNOME is anti-proprietary software. We believe,
> promote, use and write free software.
This is a self contradictory statement.
Free software was born to replace proprietary software. I.e. GNOME was born to replace KDE when it was dependent by QT.
But anti-proprietary is a bad word, it miss the point that is propositive, not negative.
I thik that a good statement should be:
"The GNOME Foundation believes in free software and promotes it as a reliable alternative* to proprietary software."
* or "a reliable replacement"
Sometimes those companies are
> proprietary software companies
Most of main software companies are not only-proprietary software companies, i.e. Google, Oracle/SUN, Intel, etc.
A statement like this:
"Sometimes those companies products proprietary software too, and while ...."
is more accurate.
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