Re: Advertisement for gnustep

[Chris Vetter]

On 2006-09-10 07:30:15 +0200 Patrick McFarland <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:21, Adam Fedor wrote:
> > RMS has offered to put something on the gnu.org home page about
> > GNUstep.  Any ideas what we should say or ask for? I had mentioned 
> > that
> > we are trying to organize a desktop.
> Honestly, I'd ask him to save the offer for maybe another few years. 
> Advertising for something that doesn't exist and has a strong chance 
> of not 
> existing is stupid, and will only sour relations with potential users.

You are right in assuming that people with a potential interest in 
looking for a GNUstep-based *desktop*environment* would be pretty 
pissed if there was an ad for 'vaporware' -- however, you *should* 
keep in mind that originally GNUstep was supposed to be the 
development (and desktop?) environment of choice for the GNU operating 
system...

--
Chris