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OBJECTIVES
Advance the free software/open source agenda as a central force in computing.
Introduce The GNOME Foundation as the non-profit organization for
advancing GNOME as the world?s leading free and easy-to-use desktop
environment for the user.
Demonstrate momentum/credibility for this foundation with announcements
of support by leading vendors.
Establish key executives from The GNOME Foundation and the vendor
organizations as resources to reporters/analysts.
STRATEGY
To reinforce GNOME?s position as a leader in the open source movement,
positioning GNOME as a unifying industry force across multiple vendors.
KEY MESSAGES
The GNOME Foundation has been formed to formalize a group of individuals,
from varying organizations and companies, who will be responsible for
advancing GNOME.
The GNOME desktop is the world?s leading free and easy-to-use desktop
enviroment for the user; GNOME has been designed to run on all modern
strains of Unix-like operating systems.
The support of leading vendors, including Sun Microsystems, Eazel,
Collab.Net, Helix Code, Red Hat, [others to come] demonstrates that the
industry is coalescing behind GNOME as the desktop environment of the future.