Re: A question to the candidates

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

On 05/27/2012 11:21 AM, Gil Forcada wrote:
> My question is about hardware and contacts: The average user is not 
> going to ever install its own operating system by itself, for them 
> hardware and software come together and they die together, so a new 
> version of Windows means a new laptop and so on, a new iPhone OS means 
> a new iPhone hardware...
Yes, I think that is crucial to spreading of free software. As we don't 
yet have any kind of image with a base OS, so that is currently up to 
the distributions. OSTree is a good step in this direction. The KDE 
Vivaldi initiative seems interesting and something that I think is worth 
investigating further, but I don't think it's worth doing quite yet 
until we have other pieces of the stack ready.

> So the crucial part here are ISV, contacting them, engaging with them 
> and finally making them ship our great software to the end user. 
Our story for allowing ISV's get their software in the hands of users 
currently sucks (say I want the newest GIMP on release day, but...no). 
Things like glick, extensions.gnome.org and Xan's webapp work is a step 
in the right direction and I think it would be worth some foundation 
money to do a hackfest around this.
- Andreas