Re: [fsf-community-team] Gnome Dev suggests Split from GNU?

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:20 -0500, Holmes Wilson wrote:
> I think this discussion is fine in and of itself, but for now we (that 
> is, the Community Team) should hold off on weighing in on articles that 
> are this internal to the free software world, for two reasons.
> 
> 1) They're the hardest things to do well (require a lot of tact, etc) so 
> it makes sense to hone our process and our positions on easier tasks.
> 
> 2) Slashdot is going to have a looong debate about something like this, 
> one that might not even leave much room to add anything.
> 
> It'll probably also save us lots of internal debate that while good 
> might be a distraction at this point.  Let's focus on the easy stuff first.

Hear hear - this is really for PGO to solve.
Though discussing the news is not bad, in case some troll decides to use
an internal issue against us.