Re: [SPAM] [fsf-community-team] What happened between GNU and GNOME ?

[Brandon Lozza]

I would have to agree with this. For instance any generic wordpress
blog has feeds built in for each separate category. I could setup my
own Gnome feed and submit that one to Planet Gnome. The only issue I
have now is i'm a KDE fan :)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Simon Bridge <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:16 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
>> I think this is an issue but not a solvable one.  Planet is just
>> software that pulls in rss feeds and the only the gnome community is
>> able to join.  so if you contribute to gnome and also do non-free
>> software those things are going to mix, but that is the community.
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>> So you either have to edit the whole planet which will be seen as
>> limiting speech or as a community you can post more often so it drowns
>> out the non-free posts.
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> It is not unheard of to moderate lists for inappropriate content.
> However, the suggestion to break gnome from gnu is an overreaction to
> the actual statement:
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>> > GNOME
>> > should not provide proprietary software developers with a platform to
>> > present non-free software as a good or legitimate thing.
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> This should be true for any list but must be particularly the case for a free 
> software list.
> The ethical question here is important and should be brought up. If anyone 
> should do so then RMS is the right man for the job.
> It is logical that the alternative prospect should also be raised: that GNOME 
> is no longer a GNU project.
> If it is not then of course gnome should split from gnu... or get with the 
> program.
> However, I suspect it is more pique than logic.
>
>> > Perhaps the statement of Planet GNOME's philosophy should be
>> > interpreted differently.  It should not invite people to talk about
>> > their proprietary software projects just because they are also GNOME
>> > contributors.
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> What is wrong with asking gnome contributors to please refrain from posting 
> to a gnome contributor list material which is counter to gnomes core values?
> The main trouble is that people are not actually "posting to" the list as 
> Stallman appears to believe.
> However, they can still keep separate feeds for free and non-free software 
> work or choose not to make their feed available.
>
> Of course, they can also choose to make vmware free software :)
>
> If our free software is so useful that proprietary companies want to get on 
> board, then it behooves us to use these programs to pressure proprietary 
> companies to change their ways does it not?
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