Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 07:15 -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote:
> Of course people should be able to be paid to work on free software.
> That's great. But when one or two large companies pay the majority of
> developers, it becomes hard to argue that it is still a 'community
> led' project, let alone one which is independent. And that's where
> GNOME is right now.

Are we (those paid contributors) not part of the community? Are non-paid
volunteers the only ones that can be part of the "community"? I don't
understand your answer here.

> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > On 21 May 2014 10:14, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > > Suggesting that we don't have GNOME's best interests at heart is
> > > just hurtful, and incorrect.
> >
> > Agreed. I've never once been told by anyone at Red Hat to do something
> > that I didn't think was in the best interests of GNOME as a project.
> >
> > Richard