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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. Heh by fault0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the GNOME folks are not going to listen to RMS and he doesn't get on the board, what is he going to do?

    Start the movement for ANOTHER desktop environment?

    If he was crazy enough to do it once, don't think he wouldn't consider it twice.

  2. Re:GNU by The+Pim · · Score: 2, Funny
    RMS will be pulling hard for a new naming scheme...GNU/Gnome

    I damn sure hope the people who keep modding these up aren't the same people who complain about CowboyNeal in the polls.

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    The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
  3. Re:GNU by jeremy+f · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gnome itself has GNU in the acronym.

    So does GNU ;)

  4. It's been said before, numerous times.. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 5, Funny



    Free Software is like sex. Its better when RMS isn't involved.

    --
    Bowie J. Poag

  5. GNU/Re:GNU by jeffy124 · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNU/I GNU/once GNU/read GNU/a GNU/comment GNU/saying GNU/that GNU/RMS GNU/won't GNU/rest GNU/until "GNU" GNU/is GNU/in GNU/front GNU/of GNU/every GNU/word GNU/in GNU/the GNU/English GNU/language. GNU/Doesnt GNU/he GNU/realize GNU/that GNU/would GNU/leave GNU/him GNU/joyless GNU/having "GNU" GNU/all GNU/over GNU/the GNU/place, GNU/not GNU/to GNU/mention GNU/weird?

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  6. Math on the brain by Faust7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the only one who looks at the initials "RMS" and consistently sees Root Mean Square? Rrgh, that's frustrating.

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    The coolest voice ever.
  7. Re:Let me see if I undestand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think RMS should join KDE team :-)

    Why, what harm have they ever done you? :-)

  8. Re:Sheesh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >One might say: "Computer geeks usually do
    >programming because they can show their
    >intellectual superiority through it. Their
    >(unrealistic) fantasy is that this helps them
    >get women, because intelligence is often
    >appreciated. Therefore, programmers program to
    >get sex."

    Damn, I must be a lot worse at programming than I thought.

  9. Are RMS and OBL the same person? by MightyMicro · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have a long-held suspicion that RMS and Osama Bin Laden are actually one and the same person. The Al Qu'aeda movement and the FSF exhibit similar properties -- revolutionary destructive conspiratorial cells in most major western democracies, leader seems to live in a distant cave, isolated from normal society, leader exhibits paranoid and psychotic tendencies, group members infiltrate and subvert, occasionally exploding and endangering the general populace, with much raging against American capitalist culture etc, etc.

    Are they, in fact, the same person? I think we should be told.