On 04/15/2010 06:02 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: > Rahul, > > Thanks for the explanation, that really provided me more accurate > information. I've readed before somewhere that Fedora went Gnote because > Tomboy had connections to Mono. It was a comparative article with > highlighted Fedora 12 vs OpenSuSE 11.2 I think. The Live CD wasn't > mentioned. > > The idea I got from the article was that Gnote was highlighted because > it was more inside the FOSS scope that Tomboy which relied on Mono. Well the anti-Mono brigade hijacked the news about this change and projected their own motivations to it and I have explained it to some press reports about that and copied this list in fact. My recent blog post on this topic http://mether.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/gnote-and-fedora/ I had to clarify notions about similar change that is happening with F-Spot being replaced by Shotwell http://lwn.net/Articles/383249/#Comments > I've been flamed countless times for defending a pacific co-existence > between proprietary and FOSS despite of all the fuss around. In my > humble opinion, it's actually users choice. But if we face Fedora as a > FOSS enabler (our main role?), shouldn't we excel in doing that? > We are not restricting user's choice in any way. but promoting proprietary or even open core software or enabling them in Fedora is a entirely different matter. Rahul -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
