Re: Reaching out to Amazon for credit?

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Sun, January 6, 2013 9:20 pm, Richard Stallman wrote:

> There are some things that we must not tolerate on any pretext.
> Spyware is one of them.

I agree with this sentiment, and am glad you are raising the issue. I
liked the post you wrote, which I discuss with Bradley on our oggcast.

To raise it here in this thread is definitely off topic, as others have
said. I do think it's important to point out flaws in GNU/Linux
distributions and the FSF serves its role well in that capacity.

GNOME like all projects that are part of GNU is free software and can be
used by anybody for any purpose. A lot of these communities have all sorts
of participants, from hacker hobbyists to companies that sell various
products around them, many of which involve proprietary software, spyware
and all kinds of bad stuff. Our communities are stronger for having
diverse participation, and the body of free software keeps growing because
of this. Take GCC, for example. And the LGPL.

What's important on the GNOME Foundations list is that you help us stay
focused on GNOME and keeping it free. I hope Canonical does the right
thing with Ubuntu going forward. It's right to call them out on it, but
the GNOME foundations list isn't the venue for it unless for some reason
GNOME starts including spyware too (which we won't!!). I also really hope
that Canonical keeps contributing to help make GNOME better.

karen