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Link to rejected proposal as "proof"

Link to rejected proposal as "proof"

Posted Jun 2, 2011 22:28 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Link to rejected proposal as "proof" by nix
Parent article: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

> 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.


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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.

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