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Gnome Preliminary Election Results In

Posted by chrisd on from the does-anyone-know-what-step-two-is dept.

makapuf writes "First results of Gnome Board elections have been issued. They include some well known gnome hackers, Miguel & others, along with Tesla Gwyne, but RMS has not been elected. Remember this is only temporary and see the results on Gnotices. You can see RMS' responses of the application form."

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  1. What I found vaguely interesting by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    was that of the 11 people who voted and who have gnu.org email addresses only 2 people, including RMS, voted for RMS.

    Not that this necessarily means anything particularly significant, I have no idea about what having a gnu.org email address means for a start, it's just vaguely interesting.

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  2. Re:Why gee, that's a surprise ... by nagora · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Now the world at large at least takes free software seriously

    Serious enough to stop trying to patent code? Serious enough to ensure that all software comes with source on disc? Serious enough that you or I can have access to the language codes which drive our printers?

    The world has moved backwards in respect of free software. Ironically this is largely RMS's fault, AFAICS. His irritating manner has almost totally destroyed any respect for his ideas on free software, ideas which are valuable.

    The world hasn't stopped needing RMS's vision, it just really needs a new RMS.

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  3. Board dominated by Ximian and Red Hat by Florian+Weimer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Time will tell if this is a good thing. Perhaps the per-company limit should have been lower (two or three), so that some other companies would have been represented on the board. The current member's affiliations probably do not mirror a large part of the GNOME community.

  4. yeah right by streetlawyer · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Now people are recognising some of the benefits of available source code, they're not seeing the important difference between open source and free software

    Or possibly, they're seeing it, and they don't think it's important.

    In general, never assume that the reason people don't think things are important is because they don't understand them. Years of evolution has given us a sense of proportion which means that the mass of people is almost never wrong about what's worth bothering with. That's why turnout is so low in Presidential elections.

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  5. Re:Gnome is RUDE to turn him away now. by DrXym · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Turning copyright over to the FSF doesn't mean that RMS is entitled to charge in like in a bull in a chinashop. If he wants to control within a project it must be with the consent of the maintainers, in this case the GNOME contributors. If this case, there was a vote, the other candidates were better and he didn't get in.


    If he's that determined to run GNOME his way (e.g. into the ground just like Hurd), he's perfectly entitled to fork the code, but I seriously doubt many people would bother to use it.


    In fact GNOME needs to sweep some of the politics aside and encourage pragmatism. Getting usable code out the door and being able to run it anywhere is the best way it's likely to increase its mindshare.