Does Sun adopt Gnome ?

[David Johnson]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Don, 17 Aug 2000, petruzza wrote:
> > I received a notice that in this week Sun will adopt the Gnome platform
> > as a default platform for Solaris.
> 
> This will mean Sun is going to ship GPL applications beeing linked to their 
> proprietary libraries together with the operating system......

I goes even further than this. One of the founding principles of GNOME
was that unfree software made people unfree. Praising Sun for choosing
GNOME as the desktop for their proprietary Solaris seems to throw
these principles right out the door.

>From the GNOME website:  "The GNOME project was born as an effort to
create an entirely free desktop environment for _free_systems_. "

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David Johnson
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