Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 13, 2014 12:55 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development by russell
Parent article: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

> 1. Those who produce the code, control the direction, even if no one else likes it. Try swimming against that tide as a volunteer.

You are absolutely correct in that "those who produce the code, control the direction" -- but your solution to "I don't like the direction" is "eliminate the folks producing the code".

I have a very hard understanding how that can be considered progress.

If you don't like the direction the ship is sailing, fork the code and produce something better; But complaining about how you're swimming against the tide when you deliberately chose to do so...

Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 15, 2014 5:07 UTC (Sun) by russell (guest, #10458) [Link]

Did I say remove the coders. No. What I'm saying is that if you don't want to "fork" the users, then consult more generally. I don't have the time or inclination to fork anything. I have in the past bought GNOME into several companies, donated money, provided numberous bug reports, and even some fixes. Since GNOME 3 no longer meets my needs, I don't get involve anymore.