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Stallman Responds To GNOME Questionaire
proclus writes: "Stallman's
response to the GNOME board election process
is a lesson in the application of free software principles. For Stallman, GNOME is a GNU project, and the main goal is to promote free software. His consistancy and ethics are admirable, but one wonders if GNOME has grown beyond its roots in the free software community. Is Stallman's view of GNOME too narrow?
The GNU-Darwin Distribution
and
The Fink
projects are a case in point. It is simply amazing how many people want to use GNOME together with Mac OSX, and yet in Stallman's view, this would be an example of GNOME falling short of its goals. If free software is used together with proprietary, then the movement has failed to displace proprietary software, and free the users. Is it possible to reach such users with free software ideals, and is it necessary to divorce free software from proprietary in order to accomplish that goal?"
see title - 20 seconds... but I wanted FP!!!!
i have a penis too.
Portman's Grits (Jingle Bells)
Written by NickTheGreek, London
Racing through the news
in an MS IE browse,
over the polls I cruise
can't wait for trouble to rouse;
trolling 'bout to start,
make my spirits bright,
oh what fun it is to curse and lie
when I'm trollin' slashdot tonight
Portman's Grits, Portman's Grits,
Miss Portman all the way!
O how much I'd like to see her ride,
My tiny knob today!
A day or two ago,
My mum caught me in bed,
rocking to and fro'
She laid one upside my head;
She said you shouldn't wank;
She asked if I did a lot,
I said I can't stop havin a crank,
I'm a lame asshole slashbot!
Portman's Grits, Portman's Grits,
Miss Portman all the way!
O how much I'd like to see her ride,
My tiny knob today!
About every damn fortnight,
Stephen King, he died;
I went back to the slashdot site,
Posted it and no-one replied!
Still at god damn school,
My future's pretty bleak,
Newbie coders like me just rule,
even though I'm just a fucking piss-streak.
Portman's Grits, Portman's Grits,
Miss Portman all the way!
O how much I'd like to see her ride,
My tiny knob today!
Q: How do you stop a nigger from jumping on the bed?
A: Put velcro on the ceiling.
why isn't he more popular THEN
lord god Willy Gates????
OMFG! That's the most hilarious thing I have ever read on Slashdot! I can't breathe, damnit! Jesus Christ, help me! Can I have your children, tt2k1?
Jesus was a socialist.
Maybe I'm just on crack, but 2 weeks ago I ditched the Gnome desktop. I've always run Enlightenment as my window manager, and for a very long time now have run Gkrellm. So I looked at things and said, what am I running all this extra stuff for? Enlightenment has menus for apps, gkrellms holds any and all applet style things I need, and buttons for frequently used apps. Don't get me wrong, I love Gnome/GTK. All the apps I use use the Gnome and GTK libs, but there was no real reason to use the desktop environment. Plus my memory usage dropped about 20MB. Maybe this is off topic, but do we really need a desktop "environment"? I don't.
Bah!
users
- be what you hoped it would. Why,
- you
ask? Because Linux is bad coding and- a bunch of rejects who can't help
each other out. Why are there so many Linuxdistributions?
Damn, _this_ Linux
distro is missing 1 thing. I think I will start my own..
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. You would actually compare RMS to a terrorist who murdered nearly 5,000 people? RMS may be a pain in the ass at times, but he's no terrorist. You say "the methods they use are very alike." When did RMS crash four god damn planes into buildings? When did RMS blow up an apartment building in Saudi Arabia? When did RMS fill an inflatable raft with explosives and ram it into a fucking ship?
You are a complete fucking asshole.
What the hell are you talking about?
One kills people, the other really likes free software. I don't see the connection here.
You're a lot like Osama Bin Laden too, in that you drink water, breathe, and walk sometimes. Clearly you're a bloody terrorist.
You ass.
...unless you're trying to say that Stallman has nice child-bearing hips (don't forget about the work-strong arms). Just FYI, of course -- keep on spelling it that way if you're compfortable with being confusing.
--Anonymous Spelling-Nazi Coward
See subject...
The above should be moderated 'troll'
Comparing RMS to OBL is sinking pretty damn low. It's pretty easy to stand on the sidelines and call names, but the truth of the matter is that RMS has sacrificed a great deal of his personal time producing Free software, and working to get the concept of Freedom in software across to people who otherwise would be totally clueless that such a thing existed in a quality form.
Comparing his actions with those of a murderer is extremely offensive to me.
My poetry site welcomes the unusual.
The parallels are obvious:
It's pretty easy to stand on the sidelines and call names, but the truth of the matter is that OBL has sacrificed a great deal of his personal time (as well as his Saudi citizenship and millions of dollars that have been spent or frozen) fighting for his fellow Muslims, and working to get the concept of a free Islamic world across to people who otherwise would be totally clueless that most of the Muslim world considers itself oppressed by the West.
Comparing OBL's actions with those of an academic who has never put his life on the line for what he believes is extremely offensive to me.
~wally