Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

[Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com>]

On 27 April 2013 17:08, Stormy Peters <stormy peters gmail com> wrote:

Hi Richard,

They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source projects. I think we should refer to them as open source projects regardless of what we call GNOME.

If people from open source software projects want to join us at a GNOME event to learn more about GNOME, we should welcome them. 

Continuously telling some of our biggest fans that they are wrong all the time is not the way to grow our project.

As a soft note, I did not read Richard's message this way.

As I understood, he expressed that, they are OSS start-ups in Portland and that's OK, they may support GNOME, and that's good. *Then*, he expressed that, regarding GNOME, let's call it Free/Libre software (because this is what it is), and let's not call it OSS, which is different.

I believe you both agree on your two first paragraphs.

Kindly,
Luc

 

Stormy

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:

    This is true.  Portland has a very large presence of many open source based
    start ups

We're happy to accept support from those that talk about "open
source", but let's take care to present GNOME as a free/libre software
project, with the goal of giving users freedom, rather than using the
term "open source" ourselves.

--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call

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