Re: GNOME now

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:06 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:
> 
> > GNU/Linux is mostly used on PCs, but we want it to be used on tablets
> > and phones too.  Thus, making GNOME work well on those machines is
> > useful.  However, until the day people prefer to do programming on a
> > tablet, the desktop will remain important.
> 
> Is the GNU system for programmers only ? I doubt that is what you
> mean.

I'm sure it isn't.

The software for the mobile devices has to be written by programmers.

If the programmers write the software on desktop computers then we want
them to be using GNOME while they do it.

If programmers have to use some other desktop environment when writing
the application, they'll want to have that same environment on their
mobile devices, and that will have an impact on GNOME's usage.

Liam

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