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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. GNU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gnome was built using GNU tools so my guess is, if elected to the board, RMS will be pulling hard for a new naming scheme...GNU/Gnome [running on GNU/Linux].

    "The compiler is more important than the kernel."
    --RMS on OS components, importance of

  2. Software is like sex. by hayden · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's better if RMS isn't involved.

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    Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
  3. Re:It's been said before, numerous times.. by tonywong · · Score: 0, Redundant

    umm...just a strange question...how do you know this?

  4. It's all about the mindshare by LoveMe2Times · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's probably too late for this to be seen by anyone, but I thought I'd post for posterity. I think that it is imperative that *somebody* take a hardline against non-free software. That person is RMS. I don't think it's hard to understand why promoting proprietary software is in bad taste for a free software project. There's a fairly basic principle for free software: they don't collect money, they collect mindshare. Mindshare is the free software world's currency. The more mindshare a project has, the better it does (modulus poor management). So, it's not so much that proprietary software is "bad," but by using it, you aren't helping out the community (in that application area). If enough people do this, it can seriously hamper a free project's ability to attain critical mass. And, personally, as a user, I would prefer that all of my software be free. This in turn means that I would prefer that you use free software. Now, I'm not real vocal about it. But I'm damn glad that RMS is.