Re: Fwd: Draft of Proposal for the GNOME Foundation.

[Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>]

-> > into ITS development projects).  Or even more nightmarish: Microsoft
-> > orders all its 18000 workers to subscribe to the list and vote to use DCOM
[...]
-> Ah. and I suppose the current Gnome developers will immediately start
-> coding slavishly on the new features that were voted on?

	Heh, good point (although I'll again point to the Emacs split as
an example where political differences can have technical repercussions).
The trademark and fund allocation tasks are more relevant and
to-the-point.


-> on, this community can be extremely critical towards anything that has
-> even the slightest hint of wrongness, with a constant buzz of negative
-> publicity as the outcome.

	Perhaps if there were something like the Foundation to make
public, leadership-like statements and say, "No, we will NEVER use DCOM!"
(etc., whatever) the negative buzz would die down.

	Then again, maybe not.


-> Oh, and as far as I know "Gnome" is not a registered trademark, so no
-> vote is needed.

	Gnome is not, but I think "Gnome Compliant" should be, as should
the Gnome foot (both owned by the Gnome Foundation).  This would allow us
to set quality and conformance standards for 3rd-party products.

--Derek