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Are You A Friend of Gnome?
From the donation page: "Love GNOME? Want to give back to the community of mostly volunteer developers who have worked so hard to make GNOME
the powerful, flexible, friendly, fun desktop that it is?" There are a number of contribution levels a person can join at, so if you love Gnome, consider helping the foundation out.
Yep, there's nothing better than good hard GNOME. But then there's KDE as well... it's like having a threesome but it's actually not in my dreams.
I prefer hobbits.
'free' software is getting awfully expensive lately.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
Yeah, that's an objective point of view...
CmdrTaco said during an interview: "Well, slashdot kept getting slashdotted, so we decided to post useless crap that no one would want to look at it, and could find elsewhere if they did want to look at it. Yes, that's it."
Some rumors from the slashdot team have indicated that perhaps the person that started this new trend, "chrisd", was really under the influence of heroin, and his /friends were covering for him. This same source said the new trend could be over as soon as the next post. More news as it comes in.
What about the enemies of GNOME? We, the members of COBOLD, oppose project GNOME, their GUI, and all that they stand for! We will not rest until every member of the GNOME development team of lies in a shallow grave. Our leader, COBOL-commander, will overthrow the present order by military force, and restore the glorious days of punchcards and Cobol! Co-bolllll!
As for the "friends" of GNOME - we suggest you cower in terror lest you share the developers fate!
Incidentally, the classic "Kobold" was a spirit of the home or hearth - Kobe holt = hut goblin. The dog-headed lizardmen from D&D are, as many D&D things are, an artifact of somebody's supplementary artwork, and have no "basis" in mythology (although the guy who did the drawings for the Monster Manual is as qualified to make up mythology as anybody; it was all made up at some point.)
Etymology of Gnome.
Etymology of Kobold. Search the page for "cobalt".
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
When it comes to stability GNOME has KDE beat every which way. The main reason I switched from KDE to GNOME was because every time that Mozilla would crash, it also crashed ("krashed"?) KDE with it. Now I'm using GNOME and Mozilla is much more stable. On the rare occasions when Moz does crash, GNOME stays up, nary missing a beat. I have never had an application crash GNOME, something which I can't say about KDE.
---"Yes, I like gnome a lot. I might even donate money, but the problem with this link is they they don't offer any specific details about what happens with this money? Does it go to administration? How so? To major coders? which? Who qualifies? Bandwidth? Why does the Gnome Foundation do that requires our financial support?"
I know where its gonna go.....
It's gonna pay for the slashdotting we gave 'em. heh
"I donated $500 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
But I can't find the place on their site where
I can send in my pocket lint. Darn.
-- filgy
Larger sums may also be transmitted via bank wire transfer.
For details contact fundraising at gnome org
Well shoot! It looks like I can't wire them the money. I suppose will I can use Pay... Umm... a service from Ebay.
- Life is what keeps you occupied while you are waiting to die
The question was not, "Are you a troll?", it was, "Are you a friend of Gnome." Of course, this is
Let's see, I have $50 burning a hole in my pocket, let's choose between Gnome or Perl.
Gnome (and KDE for that matter) crashes a little too much for my tastes. The UI design could use a little more simplification and consistency. So maybe they need the money, to help improve these things. That would be good.
Perl, on the other hand, is a language that makes me money. I program in Perl and people pay the big dollar. So maybe I owe Perl a little.
Gnome has this guy that likes .NET. In fact, he likes .NET so much it's a little creepy.
Perl has this guy that looks like Weird Al, who's pretty cool. And this other guy that writes packages based on quantum mechanics and other mind-twisting stuff.
Gnome might be moving to the .NET runtime someday, which means Microsoft could possibly have a little more legal power over the project than I'd like. That could be dangerous, maybe I shouldn't give them any money.
Perl 6, though, looks like it has lost all touch with reality (I think it's pretty cool, but then again, that says more about my grip on reality than anything else). In fact I believe programming in Perl 6 will be like taking a hit of LSD. LSD is bad (the flashbacks man) so maybe they don't need my money either.
Tough one... I think I'll just keep my $50 for now.............