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GNOME Foundation Elections - Final Candidate List

Posted by chrisd on from the mc-begat-gnome dept.

Motor writes: "The list of candidates for the forthcoming GNOME foundation election is now available. And yes, RMS is on there..." Note for voters, the email will be sent out the 13th. Please note the Election Rules and Director Overview Good luck to all the candidates!

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  1. Damn... by Korgan · · Score: 3, Troll

    I truly hope that RMS is not voted on. While he has done great things in the past, his more recent attitude towards the community as a whole as done nothing but annoy me.

    Maybe, just maybe, I'm wrong, but I strongly believe RMS has gone from evangelist to extremist. Claiming to be the father of OpenSource, true or not, I feel rather strongly that he has grown too egotistical for his own good and just wants to be in the lime-light more than he wants to promote the over-all success and benefits of OpenSource and the Free Software Foundation.

    Maybe if he wasn't so anti commercial products and accepted that they do have a place and are necessary things would be a lot easier to swallow, but I've just had enough of him.

    Bill Gates and him should have a Celebrity Deathmatch to see who really is the father of OpenSource :-)

  2. Re:I dunno about you guys.. by erc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why? Alan's ego is about as big as RMS's is...

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    -- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@pobox.com PGP KeyID: 0x0BD32C9B What I'm up to: http://intuitives.mine.nu
  3. Gnome needs to succeed by mrm677 · · Score: 2, Troll

    I used to be a huge KDE fan until I thought about things recently. I was labeled a troll for making this post earlier. I will likely be labeled a Troll again and be ripped again for this post if its even moderated high enough.

    If KDE continues to capture "desktop share" among the Linux community, how will this affect Linux software development? Consider if KDE is on 80% of all Linux desktops 5 years from now. Do you think some small commercial software company will want to purchase a $2000 Trolltech license to develop software for the "Linux Desktop"? Some will, but many won't. This is not good for Linux. I realize they could still develop using other alternatives, but it wouldn't interoperate well with the commonplace "Linux Desktop" being KDE.

    Sure, Trolltech does great work and deserves to be compensated. However, I believe that desktop application development for Linux needs LGPL libraries. Commercial software really is important for the future of Linux. The small shops who don't want to open-source their software won't bring applications to a KDE desktop.

    And if KDE becomes the dominant Linux desktop and a commercial company wants to develop a Linux desktop application, why should Trolltech get compensated? What about Linus? What about the XFree86 developers? What about the hundreds of other people who pour hard work into Linux for free? This is what Linux is all about.

    KDE is dangerous...its too good. There is nothing wrong with Trolltech and I don't mean to bash them. However, the prominent Linux desktop can't depend on KDE. Gnome needs to succeed.