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GNOME Foundation Board Election Results
Anonymous BillyGoat writes "The results of the 2003 GNOME Foundation Elections have been announced. These are preliminary results, and will stand unless someone decides to challenge them. A notable exclusion from this year's list is Miguel De Icaza, whose candidacy application was rejected as it missed the deadline. In related news, barely a few weeks after the news of the death of GNOME hacker Chema Celorio in a sky diving accident, the GNOME community was shocked by the news of the sudden death of Evolution hacker Ettore Perazzoli."
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I first met Chema Celorio in 1997 in Mexico. I didn't know it at the time as he was at the "catcher" side of the glory hole. He was a good friend and will be missed.
You mean geeks outside of the US actually.. you know.. do stuff? Sky Diving? I mean, how many parachutes do you need to keep our fat-asses from splattering on the ground? Wow. Next thing you know, someone's going to say RMS got married.. To a Real Woman (and not a Real Doll (tm))! /flame
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He's dead, get over it. It happens to all of us.
I mean really?
No, only pathetic losers die because of autoerotic asphyxiation. I predict that RMS will go that way.
Uh, yah, underachiever, that'd be me alright... :)
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That's pretty funny. I like that.
No, what I hate is untalented folks like yourself who find it far more important to stand on ceremony and tradition and let it interfere with with actually accomplishing something. But then, when you fail (as your kind often does), at least you have a scapegoat, as you can point to the person who did things "different" to actually get the job done.
"'m sorry sir, but we've always climbed down this cliff and up the other side, so it'd be against the rules to build a bridge across the ravine."
That's how your dad went. Your mom's fetid cunt was too revolting for him so he resorted to gay porn video and plastic bags over his head.
It's your mom's fault your dad is dead, tell the cunt to lose some weight so another man will find her somewhat attractive enough to go down on.
(hey, that's not funny!)
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The State Of KDE
We have seen a lot of important news regarding the KDE project over recent weeks, so it is worth pausing to consider the ramifications.
Let us start with the recent acquisition of SUSE by Novell. SUSE was the biggest Linux distributor (though still dwarfed by Red Hat) to use KDE as its default desktop. SUSE has, for many years, neglected to package the GNOME desktop properly or even do basic Q&A... much to the delight of KDE fanatics. Now, however, Novell has purchased the SUSE linux distribution and Ximian, a company best known for the producing the most polished and professional desktop available for Linux (GNOME-based). The obvious conclusion to be drawn from this is that KDE is about to lose its main commercial support.
Let us take a look at some of the reasons why this is so:
why is this modded troll?
He makes very valid points... metacity does suck.
only idiots think whole window dragging is good.
and people that contribute to gnome that are there only for bloat need to be removed and not allowed to ever post any code to the base ever again.
although, you can switch from metacity to another WM and get rid of that stupidity under gnome... and replace Bloatius with Midnight Commander and get gnome back to the speed it should run at.
I heard that when they found him they found him covered in paperclip wounds and his last words were, "And you also, McBr...?"
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