Re: [Off Topic] We need "Vendor"s? [was Words to Avoid "Vendor"]

From: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>
To: "Dave Neary" <dneary free fr>
Cc: rms gnu org, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>, foundation-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Off Topic] We need "Vendor"s? [was Words to Avoid "Vendor"]
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:24:23 +0100 (CET)

[snip]

> I want GNOME to be a free software desktop. And while I welcome 3rd
> party developers building software on the platform, I don't think it's
> consistent with the goals of the project to encourage it, by putting
> this aspect of our platform forward as a major selling point. Does that
> make me a ridiculous extremist too?

I think it's a bit silly, but the difference is that RMS would be
incapable of saying "I welcome 3rd party [proprietary] developers building
software on the platform".

Murray Cumming
murrayc murrayc com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com

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