"Run GNOME in a **VMWare Player** in a Linux virtual machine."
Or: "Run GNOME on a virtual machine using QEMU on Linux or **Parallels** for **Mac** or Linux." promoting the use of non-free software? This is a case of running a free program on non-free platforms. Nonetheless, I think it is more of a problem than running on Windows, because those non-free platforms are optional add-ons to the system. Thanks for telling me about this. I have not visited this site myself: http://torrent.gnome.org/ Would you be so kind as to tell me the precise URLs where you found those quotes? If not, I will look for someone else who will do that for me.