On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:12:15AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > No problem with your English whatsoever. > > The only problem that I have is with the logic that the fate of GNOME > represents the fate of Open Source or Linux - it doesn't. > > Just look at the feedback on the new Macintosh OS X Lion or Windows 8 > preview... there is a lot of griping about the changes to the UI. It's > certain that regardless of the OS, changes to the UI will always raise a > bunch of complaints and the more drastic the changes, the louder the > complaints. That's not really surprising. > > People who appreciate open source should love the bold, fresh ideas that > GNOME 3 represents, even if they don't actually intend to use it. It > aspires to encompass the computer regardless of form factor. It dares to > innovate. It spreads the umbrella of implementation that protects it > from those who believe they can patent virtually everything by providing > evidence of prior art. It demonstrates that the innovation doesn't only > emanate from Cupertino (though some of us knew that) or Redmond > (puhlease). > > But to get to your point that 'GNOME has abandoned GNOME 2 and put > distributions in an awkward position' - perhaps you are confused. Let's > just stay on topic, Fedora. Fedora is very clear on this... Fedora's > core value is to implement new versions as early as reasonable to help > drive the development and provide valuable feedback. GNOME 2 is done and > if a sufficient number of people want to maintain it for security > issues, it can continue on as it always has. But Fedora is giving us a > glimpse of the future by implementing the leading edge now... that is > and has always been the core value of Fedora. There's no awkwardness or > confusion there. Hear hear ! Alexander -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
