On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:12 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:

I understand your position. I think you might not understand the position of a lot of GNOME foundation members and contributors.

Their position isn't necessarily compatible with your position that GNOME should "avoid presenting proprietary software as legitimate".

The way I see it is that most members want GNOME to stay out of that philosophic discussion. Although GNOME usually advises to "work upstream" and to "do things opensource when possible, as much as possible". This is just a personal point of view, of course.

You, as one of the key FSF people, appear to be keen[1] on enforcing a strict policy on how GNU's member-projects should behave. So ...

I propose to have a vote on GNOME's membership to the GNU project.

I think it's clear that I disagree. Philosophically.

Let's first get a consensus from our members on GNOME's status as being or not being a well-behaving GNU project, or having its own identity.

Cheers,

Philip

[1] You write "minimal support". "Minimal" to me means: either you do this, or you're out. Feel free to correct me.