Desktop Proposal

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, inode0 wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, inode0 wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > So lets leave the other missions in place, as suggested in the paper, and
> >> > just add one?  Is there anyone else on the list that thinks trying to
> >> > build a usable, general purpose desktop is not worth being a mission of
> >> > the Fedora Project?
> >>
> >> Here is what I believe is Red Hat's mission statement: "To be the
> >> catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners
> >> creating better technology the open source way."
> >>
> >> They don't think that an enterprise server operating system is worth mentioning?
> >>
> >> Details like this are a trap and should be avoided.
> >>
> >
> > The management at Red hat don't let the engineers do whatever they want
> > all willy nilly.  As such they don't have as many issues figuring out what
> > they showed up to do that day.  Trap or not, it's guidance.
> >
> > Anyway, I'll get back to creating free code and content, whatever the hell
> > that is.
>
> And I think that free code and content is just as important to our mission.
>

And I think not all free code and content is good free code and content:

http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/FREE

	-Mike