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Because GNOME is supposed to be an open, not closed system. At least that's how I've always seen it. P.S. Since I got 2 downvotes, could someone please explain

Because GNOME is supposed to be an open, not closed system. At least that's how I've always seen it. P.S. Since I got 2 downvotes, could someone please explain me what's wrong with writing a personal opinion?

tspiteri 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. How is focusing your own work on the one platform you care about the same as being closed? Everything is still open, and if a platform wants to support GNOME, they are free to do the work themselves; I'm sure patches would be accepted.
- ciupicri 15y ago
  Being limited to only one operating system would make it more closed. P.S. Quoting from Wikipedia: "Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability, _portability_, and open software standards." [1] Also the name GNOME is an acronym of GNU Network Object Model Environment. It refers to GNOME’s original intention of creating a distributed object framework similar to Microsoft's OLE. [2] If GNOME is considered an open system despite working only on Linux, the same could be said about OLE, but I doubt many would agree with this. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28computing%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Name
- rrrazdan 15y ago
  For me 'open' has a very strong connection to 'choice'.
ajross 15y ago
"Open" is about accessibility to the development process and result products. It's not about conforming to the broadest possible "port" base. Frankly, if there's something that Gnome needs (or just can get significant value from) that is available on Linux but not other platforms, I see nothing wrong with abandoning those other platforms until/unless they catch up. That's just progress. That said, I don't see any evidence that this is actually happening. The systemd proposal was just that (a proposal), and while systemd is a pretty invasive change to linux boot and daemon management it really doesn't seem like something that couldn't be abstracted by FreeBSD in a way that would work with Gnome.
wmf 15y ago
You're being downvoted for redefining "open", which in this case is understood to mean open source. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.opensource.org/osd.html
- sigzero 15y ago
  I understood exactly what he meant when he said open system.

tspiteri 15y ago

I'm not sure I understand you. How is focusing your own work on the one platform you care about the same as being closed? Everything is still open, and if a platform wants to support GNOME, they are free to do the work themselves; I'm sure patches would be accepted.

ciupicri 15y ago
Being limited to only one operating system would make it more closed. P.S. Quoting from Wikipedia: "Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability, _portability_, and open software standards." [1] Also the name GNOME is an acronym of GNU Network Object Model Environment. It refers to GNOME’s original intention of creating a distributed object framework similar to Microsoft's OLE. [2] If GNOME is considered an open system despite working only on Linux, the same could be said about OLE, but I doubt many would agree with this. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28computing%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Name
rrrazdan 15y ago
For me 'open' has a very strong connection to 'choice'.

ajross 15y ago

"Open" is about accessibility to the development process and result products. It's not about conforming to the broadest possible "port" base. Frankly, if there's something that Gnome needs (or just can get significant value from) that is available on Linux but not other platforms, I see nothing wrong with abandoning those other platforms until/unless they catch up. That's just progress. That said, I don't see any evidence that this is actually happening. The systemd proposal was just that (a proposal), and while systemd is a pretty invasive change to linux boot and daemon management it really doesn't seem like something that couldn't be abstracted by FreeBSD in a way that would work with Gnome.

wmf 15y ago

You're being downvoted for redefining "open", which in this case is understood to mean open source. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.opensource.org/osd.html

sigzero 15y ago
I understood exactly what he meant when he said open system.