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FSF supports average users with high-priority list (NewsForge)

[Posted May 2, 2006 by ris]

NewsForge takes a look at the Free Software Foundation's high-priority project list. "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is frequently considered an organization for developers rather than end users, but Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF, would disagree. "We don't just want freedom for software developers," Brown said in a telephone call interview last month. "We want freedom for all." One of the ways that the FSF promotes this goal is with its high-priority project list."

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List is out of date

Posted May 2, 2006 15:54 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

It looks like the FSF hasn't noticed that the folks at Red Hat/Fedora have already completed their high-priority OpenOffice.org project; the version they ship is built entirely with free-as-in-freedom Java tools. I don't know whether upstream has taken back all the changes, but the FSF is free to use the Fedora version.

Also, those pages haven't been updated in some time; they were written before OpenOffice.org 2 was shipped.

It's being taken care of

Posted May 3, 2006 21:45 UTC (Wed) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

They're apparently aware of it, as the article notes:

Currently, the high-priority list consists of six items. At the top of the list is <snipped>. The next four items are about to be retired: a release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 with a free implementation of Java; [....]

FSF supports average users with high-priority list (NewsForge)

Posted May 2, 2006 16:23 UTC (Tue) by pheldens (guest, #19366) [Link]

Ati r300 driver, thrilled it's on the list.
It would be cool if someone could arse Ati to release specs on IGP video memory initialisation.

FSF supports average users with high-priority list (NewsForge)

Posted May 2, 2006 20:45 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Agreed, it's very nice to have this as a high FSF priority. Now if the developers would maybe update the web page for the project (instead of putting a note saying "we're too busy to update this, look in CVS", maybe people would pay more attention. How much effort does it take to add a line or two every little while, showing what's going on? Come on, people...if your work is important, then communication needs to happen!