Link to rejected proposal as "proof" [LWN.net]

Link to rejected proposal as "proof"

Posted Jun 1, 2011 11:26 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Biased metric to produce desired result by coriordan
Parent article: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

Oh, and the link he provides for his claim that GNOME is outside of GNU, is to a post by someone who doesn't represent GNOME.

The person in question made the proposal because he was angry at RMS for saying that GNOME shouldn't promote non-free software.

The person's proposal was ignored.

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Link to rejected proposal as "proof"

Posted Jun 2, 2011 17:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

However the thread itself ran about 95% disagreeing with RMS (you could feel the incredulity coming through the screen), 5% agreeing, and RMS's request was similarly ignored. That's... not the way he acts when making requests to projects in which the GNU Project holds the copyright.

Link to rejected proposal as "proof"

Posted Jun 2, 2011 22:28 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

> about 95% disagreeing with RMS

Maybe 95% of the volume, but that was mostly just two *very* loud people :-)

> RMS's request was similarly ignored

His request was that http://planet.gnome.org not be used to promote proprietary software. I didn't follow the whole issue but no announcements about proprietary software jumped out at me when I checked just now.

Link to rejected proposal as "proof"

Posted Jun 3, 2011 9:51 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That's definitely true, as planet.gnome.org never contained announcements/promotions of proprietary software anyway. His request was that it never mention proprietary software at all. As this amounted to an attempt to control what hundreds (?) of people write on their blogs it met with the sort of success you might expect.