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RMS Running For GNOME Board Of Directors

Posted by timothy on from the thus-could-the-circle-be-completed dept.

An anonymous reader points to this story at Newsforge which says that "RMS is throwing his hat in the ring as a candidate for the GNOME foundation board of directors. Speculation is that he's pissed because the GNOME summary keeps mentioning non-free software; now he's going to (try to) do something about it."

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  1. If the Gnome team spent... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    less time fretting about organisational issues and more time developing Gnome, maybe it would not be 2 years behind KDE now. People seem to brush this aside, but it is a major issue. Gnome is very far behind KDE and many parts of GNome are currently either horribly broken or simply unimplemented. Worse still, major API stuff is largely undocumented.


    Gnome has a very poor system for bug tracking and quality control. Any crack smoking fool can make CVS commits that fuck things up. It is a real mess.

  2. Re:A matter of choice... by Greg+Lindahl · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    How about accusing RMS of what he's done, instead of what you think he's done? Quote anything where RMS says you shouldn't "even be TOLD" about software which is not GPL?

  3. RMS is too much of a maniac... by aquarian · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    The world is a better place because of him, but RMS is too fanatical for a job like this. Such a position requires a politician- not a guy who might cut off his organization's nose to spite its face.

  4. Re:A matter of choice... by Greg+Lindahl · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    Thank you. I was looking for a real quote; you say there isn't one.

    Given that RMS has frequently been abused over hearsay evidence in the past, one might think you would have learned to hold your fire until you have an actual target.