Re: LWN.net

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:
>         * LWN.net agreement - status
>               o The GNOME Foundation received the legal agreement from the
>                 lawyers and this has been shared this with LWN. Once this
>                 is finalized, work with marketing can start.
>
> My guess is that this will create opportunities to either make the
> public aware of GNU.  But it is quite possible the opportunities won't
> get used since LWN might prefer to obscure GNU by talking only about
> Linux.
>
> If that is so, we should be planning how to make sure
> that GNU/Linux is visible to the public in these activities.
>
> Since I don't know any more than what's stated there,
> I am partly guessing here.  Maybe the issue won't arise.
> But it would be good to plan this rather than leave it to chance.
>

This agreement will not be about promoting Linux or GNU/Linux. It will
be about promoting Friends of GNOME and LWN.

Stormy