Re: Questions for the board election candidates

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2012-05-27 00:44, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I try to avoid these conversations because I think there are lots of
> over generalizations, stereotypes and emotions. I just want to say
> that I generally use the term "open source" *and* I believe in many 
> of
> the values attributed to "free software". I don't believe that using
> different terminology makes us as different as some portray.

I agree with this, in that I also think that folks in practice use the 
terms interchangeably, sometimes even when talking wholly about the 
ideals of freedom. I hate for us to get distracted too much arguing 
about terminology (as Joannie says), but I do think there is an 
important discussion about the importance of freedom to GNOME and the 
role of the GNOME Foundation in promulgating freedom. As a charitable 
nonprofit, I believe our existence must be based in the ideals of 
software freedom and our mission and public good are totally related to 
those ideals. (For example, we're not a trade association.) I think that 
in order to be true to our nonprofit mission, GNOME itself must be 
committed to freedom.

karen