Re: GNOME now

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 18:26 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:

> this advanced
> UNIX-hacker type does not seem to be the primary user GNOME is focusing
> on anymore.

An open source environment needs to attract four main types of people if
it's going to remain viable -
1. programmers, to work on it
2. system administrators and packagers, to get it distributed, to make
sure it fits in well with other systems
3. evangelists, to tell other people about it, to write tutorials, to
twist the developers' arms or confiscate their shoes until the
environment is appealing...
4. its target user base, which has to include 1-3 above.

Very few people use a system because of its licence; they choose a
system and maybe then check that the licence is acceptable to them. That
doesn't mean the licence is unimportant, of course.

The GNOME desktop needs to be the best (or at least a very good)
environment for people developing applications and for running Web
browsers...

Liam

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