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

[Brandon Lozza]

You linked my blog :)

This occurred on the Gnome mailing list. One of the devs wanted to
vote Gnome out of the GNU via their referendum process. I hope this
does not happen. At the same time GNU/FSF's critics are getting a lot
more vocal and pushing the idea on various attack sites. However such
attack sites have a very steady user based (a bunch of very young
sounding trolls).

2009/12/13 galen <address@hidden>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What happened between GNU and GNOME ?
>
> Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project?
> Here is Richard Stallman's post on Gnome maillist:
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:
>
>    The people who work at VmWare also very often posted (and still post)
>    about their work and appear on Planet GNOME.
>
> They should not do this, unless VmWare becomes free software.  GNOME
> should not provide proprietary software developers with a platform to
> present non-free software as a good or legitimate thing.
>
> 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.