Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 02:51 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> See http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono for details.
> 
>     That article is a load of crap, a package of half truths.
> 
> You are entitled to your opinion, but I think you're wrong.
> I invite people to read it and judge for themselves.
> 
> Some of the points in the article -- not all -- deal with situations
> that may or may not occur, but that doesn't make them invalid or
> irrelevant.  To judge the effects of a patent promise like this one,
> it is necessary to consider the possible situations that might arise.
> 
>     Implementing a free platform for C# is a good thing to do.  If you
>     > would like to promote the use of C# itself, how about explaining to
>     > Novell and Microsoft that they need to fully implement said protection
>     > in an ironclad way for all the usual C# libraries.
>     >
> 
>     I spend a considerable amount of time doing this.   It has taken time,
>     and there would be no Community Promise, and there would be no
>     Silverlight agreement (the one that has no special Novell provisions)
>     without this work.
> 
> Thank you for working on it, and I hope you eventually succeed.
> 
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Richard,

This discussion is not contributing to the original point of this email
thread - the strategic goals for GNOME.

Thank you.

Paul