Re: [DotGNU]A matter of immediate attention

[fitzix]

David Sugar wrote:
> 
> Toni and I had the oppertunity to meet with the FSF VP.  I wish there had been
> more time to talk about this with everyone here in advance, but unfortunately,
> between the Libre meeting, and the limited availability of terminals, it has
> been hard to keep everyone up to date.  In fact, generally I have had a 24-30
> hour turn-around on any email the last few days...
> 
> The conclusion that was reached is that DotGNU will be, perhaps in a press
> release on Monday, as one of two FSF endorsed projects that the free software
> community will undertake in response to .net.  DotGNU certainly can (and if
> everyone here wishes it to, will) become a (series of) GNU packages and my own
> feeling is that the right thing to do is to have project development hosted on
> savannah.  The FSF has also expressed, as I noted in an earlier message, a
> willingness to directly help with this project.
> 
> Since a certain very sudden and deliberate situation with the other project
> required some response and action to be taken by this weekend, and the time
> window for discussion and response was much shorter than the oppertunity to
> discuss this here on the list had allowed, I did choose to discuss this with
> the FSF on behalf of DotGNU.  I hope I have not offended anyone by doing so.
> 
> David


Wow, if I may ask - what happened with the other project?

(Obviously, if you can't say - I'll understand)

Another question:  What is the scope of the other project?  Does it
overlap with us at all?

Just curious :)