If you disagree strongly enough, feel free to spread awareness to the community that a vote regarding posting this status message is ongoing and maybe some more people will get interested Anyone can register on Loomio, join this group and vote.Īlso, if someone knows a good FOSS editor for Ruby IDE for rails, please speak up RubyMine seems like a very popular choice - it’s a pity it’s not FOSS but that is something we cannot control (IMHO). IMHO as a project we should be ensuring our community and devs have the best tools to do our core task, whether that is FOSS or not. We’re not promoting non-FOSS over FOSS, we’re just saying that a company is giving out free licenses for an IDE. Anything else should be (IMHO) considered as non-core functionality. IMHO our project should concentrate on our core task - ie building software and support the diaspora* social network run by that software. We’re not a project to generally advocate FOSS outside that - there are advocacy organizations for that. Understand your point and concern, but in the end diaspora* is a project building FOSS social networking software. We can’t require people to vote on proposals. Unfortunately this topic just isn’t really interesting enough for more than that 5 who voted. Or may be you have enough developers and don’t need those that don’t want to be involved (even indirectly) in non-free software promotion ? I won’t mention the opinions expressed in this thread about “Stallmanians” (they are out of subject, to say the least), but you’re a community and you’re making FOSS: you have every rights to expect others to respect your right to use non-free software, but you should at least respect people that think D* shouldn’t promote proprietary software in any way. Is it really the image of the D* project you want to give to the public and potential future developers ?Įverybody is free to use the software they chose, but “rewarding” people with non-free software won’t help build a sense of community about D*, and will only scare some dev away, because they will doubt the values of the community. Even if there’s a vote here, what does it mean with only 5 voters ? Remember you do that on behalf of the Diaspora community. Come on, people… Get free licences of a proprietary software in the name of Diaspora, really ?
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