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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. I dunno about you guys.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I'm gonna do a write-in vote for Alan Cox.. somehow.

  2. talk about your newspeak by pnatural · · Score: 5, Funny

    quoth RMS:

    "I've been working for GNOME since years before there was a GNOME."

    RMS would make Orwell proud or scared, I can't tell.

  3. Could RMS fulfill the required role? by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The role of someone on the GNOME Board of Directors is to represent the best interests of the GNOME project not the interests of any other third party. Can RMS make this distinction?

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    Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
  4. Interesting Contrast... by sphealey · · Score: 5, Interesting
    MR. GATES: Let me start out, really the reason that you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines, and the bios of that should be open to everybody to use, and all the extensibility should be there. And so it was very predictable that once we had gotten the PC going, and going and gotten hundreds of millions of machines out there, that it had always been sort of free software and the universities would flourish and there would be more of that. We certainly accept free software as part of the software ecosystem. In fact, there's a very virtuous cycle where people do free things, some people find that adequate, sometimes companies will take that work and turn it into commercial products, those companies will hire people, pay taxes. And so you see the free software and the commercial software existing together.
    Bill Gates speaking at Microsoft's 2001 shareholders' meeting

    ==========

    I've been working for GNOME since years before there was a GNOME. In 1983, while formulating plans for the GNU operating system, I decided it ought to include a window system. Later, around 1988, we obtained X, but we found out that X only did the lower-level half of the job, so I decided we needed to develop a free software desktop to do the rest of the job. After our desktop initiatives in 1990 and 1994/5 didn't produce a working desktop (*), I became aware of another desktop project based on a non-free library (**), and spoke to the community about the problem posed by that dependency. This inspired Miguel to launch our third desktop project, the one that succeeded: GNOME.
    Richard Stallman in his statement of candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors.

    Hmmm...

    sPh

  5. Re:Gnome needs to succeed by Arandir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Commercial software companies DO NOT need to purchase the Trolltech license. Only *proprietary* developers do. Huge difference.

    The Qt license may be one of the most "fair" licenses in history. It's Free if you write Free Software (GPL), Open if you write Open Source Software (QPL) and need to make that distinction, and proprietary if you write proprietary software.

    If a company is going to profit $20,000 next year off of a KDE application, then they can afford a $2000 license. If you're only going to make $2000 in profit, however, I would strongly suggest going into another line of work.

    What about the hundreds of other people who pour hard work into Linux for free?

    KDE is not Linux. It is a desktop that runs on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, IRIX, etc. Nothing Linux specific about it.

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    A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
  6. Vote for Rhett Creighton by KidSock · · Score: 5, Funny

    5. RHETT CREIGHTON " The future is now, and that future is: Bowling Balls. Do you realize that if GNOME starts making bowling balls, we stand to net profit $11,000?! That's right, eleven big ones. Net profit, mind you. " No affiliation. Full statement at

    Name: Rhett Creighton
    Affiliation: none

    I haven't done doodly squat for GNOME. There is absolutely no reason to vote for me. I ran last year and got the least number of votes (3, including my own).

    I believe that free software is overrated. If elected, I will try to adopt a for-profit software model to the GNOME foundation. Actually, GNOME will stop making software altogether. Instead, it will make bowling balls.

    Anyone who votes for me probably should have all of their votes thrown out.

    Hi ho!
    Rhett


    Well, it's good to have someone with a sense of humor on the board. Or is it?

  7. Pagent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me or does the candidate list read just like a Miss America pagent.

    "Hello Internet.. I'm Mr. G.G. Allen from the widget project! I've been hacking since 1986 and enjoy horseback riding and swimming. I really think that Gnome is the best thing since those little sprinkles on pop tarts!"