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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. Example of complaining about non-free software by Black+Acid · · Score: 1, Troll

    The GNOME mail archives have a post which shows what RMS is pissed about. There's even a Hall of Shame which lists some non-free packages, most GNOME-based.

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  2. Re:Experienced Advocate by Wiwi+Jumbo · · Score: 1, Troll

    No he will fuck this up and most everyone who might be thinking of any kind of free software that he comes in contact with will be poisioned to the idea....

    I'm not sayin I'm an expert on any of this but the more I read about the GPL, free-software and RMS the more I think he needs to be pushed to the sidelines...

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  3. Re:Let me see if I undestand by mrm677 · · Score: 3, Troll

    KDE is not the perfect desktop. I can't create a KDE application and sell it without buying a QT license for over $2000. Since my budget is tight, I plan on developing my killer application in GTK/Gnome. Then I will be rich enough to buy a QT license.

  4. Show him the door by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, rms sais HE MADE gcc, gdb, emacs, bash, and zillions of a few others. The damm liar has already enough to care about. Show him the door.

    RMS is obsolete.

  5. Re:If the Gnome team spent... by Flammon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Alright, I keep hearing this argument of Gnome being 2 years behind KDE and it's frightening me because if in 2 years Gnome ends up where KDE is today, I'll be very disappointed.

    I've switched to KDE on occassion and found nothing spectacularly better than what Gnome offers. I find Gnome and GTK apps better than KDE ones in some areas such as Galeon, Evolution, Nautilus (needs work on speed though) OpenOffice, Sawfish and The Gimp.

    If you're referring to speed and anti-aliased fonts, Gnome 2 addresses those issues and should be out by April 2002. That's only 6 months from now, not 2 years.

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