Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net> wrote:

> BTW what about providing the Office suite first? Because Gnome
> penetration is first into large "business" [1] deployment, and and
> Office suite is more likely to hit that target. We still don't, but
> distribution vendors do.

I have no problem with that at all...but that would involve defining
our target market and focussing on it, but currently our way of
picking modules is currently kind of haphazzard and untargetted.

NB: My use of iLife type applications is not because I want that sort
of stuff included, although, it'd be cool if they were cos I'd use
them more than a spreadsheet.

> Nobody install Gnome as is, but everybody install a distribution that
> comes with Gnome (or KDE). That is were things are, and distribution
> vendor are our first ISVs.

Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and
not others. The point of blessing the application is saying that this
application meets the gnome standards for X,Y and Z and has a release
shedule that coincides with the gnome platform release. If this is all
we are really saying, then how can we discriminate on the language the
program is written in.

iain