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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. Or maybe he just wants to work on GNOME? by Dwonis · · Score: 5, Interesting
    RMS is a programmer, so it's not unreasonable to believe that since he was partly behind the creation of GNOME (even if the reasons are no longer there), he might want GNOME to succeed. Since KDE has made leaps that GNOME hasn't (I don't know this myself, since I use Window Maker, but it's what I keep hearing), RMS might want to help make GNOME better.

    Of course, keeping it free will obviously be a concern of his, but it might not be his main concern.

  2. Re:Not A matter of choice for GNOME though. by thesupraman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What utter rubish, 'GNOME' is not an entity, nor are many of it's developers, or people helping with such things as maining lists, etc. The 'GNOME Foundation' may be, but that certainly does not cover all that is gnome.

    The people who are being *very* *damb* *generous* in working on the GNOME project have *NOT* bought into anything, they are just people who should be appreciated, not trampled upon due to differing ideologies.

    If RMS, and the FSF, require absolute censure over everything that is related to the GNU project, then they had better make that *VERY* clear, include it in their licenses, and then see how many people are willing to continue to so generously help them.

    I personally think RMS needs to get back to considering the workers who have put him in such a strong position, rather than trying to pressure them into doing his bidding over small idealogical details.

    As a developer I find it harder and harder to place my work under the GPL, *purely* because of RMS's attempts to control all things related to it. Visionary or dictator? time and actions will tell.