It sounds reasonable for me, but at the same time I can’t avoid thinking Stallman wants to think by me: not present non-free software as a good or legitimate thing. Thanks, but I can’t distinguish what’s good from what’s not.
Anyway, this isn’t interesting per se but because someone has suggested to split from the GNU project (Gnome it’s part of the GNU project, something I’ve never understood… being part of GNU it’s cool besides allowing you to put the GNU in front the name of your project? Excuse my ignorance).
I think this is just a heated discussion (call it a flame if you want to), and I don’t think the GNU Network Object Model Environment will have to change it’s name because splitting from the GNU project, although I admit it would be curious after KDE not being K Desktop Environment anymore but KDE Plasma Desktop (?).
Not a big deal because both things can be fixed (please notice I don’t mean these are broken features, but restore the behaviour I’m used to and I like).
There are two things I’d like to mention here:
I bet the people behind those changes are doing them with good will, with a neat rationale, and willing to make Gnome/Fedora better. The overreactions from some people are not.
Those are defaults. You don’t need to stick to them, and everybody has an opinion about what looks better or what’s more secure.
I have an opinion too. Just stay calm and let others know what you think, respecting the hard work of other people, even when you’re convinced that they are wrong.
In other news, Fedora 12 it’s a rocking release. The upgrade didn’t work as smooth as I would have expected, but I survived heh.
Notice that I would have liked the idea if any local logged user was any local and trusted logged user. I mean, it’s like using sudo for PackageKit, but without the user entering his password twice.
