Re: [GNUnet-developers] the bigger picture

[Daniel Golle]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 10:36:31AM -0300, hellekin wrote:
> On 09/01/2015 08:17 AM, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > 
> > Claiming to be something you may or may not be when looking at you fro
> m
> > another angle is usually called 'marketing' and almost everyone has to
> > do that to some degree, either publicly or targetting a specific
> > audience (e.g. inside larger organizations).
> 
> Claiming to uphold software freedom and independence from big players,
> attacking some of them frontally because of their lack of honesty, and
> then "switching" to Mac OSX is not marketing: it's dishonest.

That's certainly a valid opinion.
However, it could be that it was the audience (the inmates of Apple's
jail) which provided most funding, probably because they are desperate
for understandable reasons and at the same time were able afford a Mac
and thus are probably not the most poor people in the world.
Yet, from what I can judge, all core libraries apart from the UI are
written in a portable way to also compile and run on Linux.
In short: There are explainations for Ind.ie's decissions which do not
necessarily include malice.