On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And in fact its moving both ways. In MeeGo they are licensing their > look and feel as proprietary and we explicitly can't use it. It's just another symptom of a deeper and more widespread meme for upstream projects to take ownership of the delivered experience. Meego is drawing a land in the sand..a very deep line filled with sharp nasty pointed things...and saying quite boldly that their deliverables are their deliverables. it will be very sad if that approach is the only approach that ends up being workable as it pretty much cuts out 3rd party distributors entirely. Consider the _request_ GNOME is making as an early olive branch to find a way to partner with distributors while still meeting the goals of taking having the upstream project taking ownership of the user experience. We can't just bury our heads in the sand and just keep doing what we have been doing...because the landscape is changing. We have to figure out how to work with upstream projects when they want to take more control (and accountability) over the final delivered experience. -jef _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
