Re: Time to sweat the details (was Re: Minutes of the GNOME Board....)

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

    The fundamental point is that if we, as developers, don't sweat the details 
    and get the out of the box (in our case, CVS or tarballs) correct, the 
    probability that one or more distro vendors get it badly wrong in an attempt 
    to "fix" it, goes way up.

This is a good reason, but there are others too.  We should aim to
produce a desktop that can be dropped right into a free operating
system and provide a capability that users find easy and natural to
use.