GUADEC/Gnome Fund Appeal

With the end of the year approaching, the Gnome Foundation has put together an appeal for help. You can also just head over to Gnome.org to contribute directly - and this year, they become a charity organization, meaning that contributions for US citizens will be tax deductions. Yay, tax deductions!

Comments

A Charity Organization?

[fmaxwell]

and this year, they become a charity organization, meaning that contributions for US citizens will be tax deductions.

When I think of all of the worthy charities that help the less-fortunate, the idea of a bunch of self-indulgent computer programmers taking advantage of our tax code like this is revolting.

The announcement that Gnome is now a recognized, tax-deductible charity is not my idea of a real uplifting message right before the holidays.

Re:A Charity Organization?

[fmaxwell]

When I think of all the hundreds of thousands of people who benefit the hard work donated by open-source developers

Who cares? Lots of people benefit from the work of Intel and AMD, too, but it doesn't mean that they are morally entitled to tax-deductible contributions.

...a self-righteous liberal prig complaining about leveraging the tax code as it was intended is revolting.

It's easy to be self-righteous when you are right. But that's a feeling that you are unlikely to enjoy any time soon. Oh, and I'm damned proud to be a liberal -- thanks for noticing.

As to your name calling, I'll respond in kind:

I don't give a damn about what some right-wing, borrow-and-spend, self-centered, pompous ass like you has to say about charities and the tax code. Your kind lacks the moral compass to make that sort of judgement.

The idea that there are people out there who think only their pet projects deserve assistance is not my idea of a real uplifting message right before Christmas.

You lack the ability to differentiate between a deserving charity and a bunch of self-indulgent computer programmers. I do not. I don't need to assume that every organization from the Ku Klux Klan to Habitat for Humanity is equally deserving. I can look at what the organizations do to determine which ones are more deserving.

Re:*sigh*

[fmaxwell]

You really like to focus on that misconception that the donations support the programmers who contribute.

I don't care if it supports them, buys them donuts, or pays for the rental on a conference center.

In fact you are so completely enamoured of that misconception that I'm going to just "walk away" at this point

Okay. Bye!!!

Thanks!!!

[fmaxwell]

Thank you for taking the time to post that. Given the attitude on here, you would think that Gnome is destined to cure cancer, wipe out AIDS, and end world hunger. It's just a graphical user interface to Linux.

Re:Why is there a GNOME foundation?

[brad-x]

The non-free KDE? Did I miss a meeting?

I'm having a hard time believing people here either straight facedly make such commentary or do so of their own beliefs rather than parroting the party line.

Starting the GNOME project because QT didn't appeal to people's communist licensing views was socially and ideologically distorted to begin with, and the failure of the two projects to share ideas and work has been a detriment, not a service, to open source.

Please think before you adopt extremist attitudes.