On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 21:50 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
In general I would prefer Inkscape to stay out of policies and politics.
Inkscape should probably stay involved in it's own policies, and that may include policies on free and open source for technical reasons.
While I agree we shouldn't talk politics, I also disagree that we should stop talking Inkscape's own internal politics on Free and Open Source. It's clear that lots of users and many developers care that Inkscape is Free Software and care that development happens with that consideration in mind. That's why we always assumed the consensus was pro-foss, it's weaved into the projects cultural fabric.
Of course I might be wrong, and all the developers might be anti-foss and just stick around for the technicals, but I don't think that's true and it's reflected in the goal of the project to make an open source SVG editor, not just an SVG editor.
I do admit however that I'm biased as I'd never be found working on the windows port and certainly wouldn't delay the release. I have politics and it does effect how I see situations, if you cut that out of the discussion here then we're all going to be left trying to guess what the hell each of us is actually trying to achieve. Keep it in but keep it respectful.
Martin.