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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."
I stopped caring about Gnome at about the time they started deciding Metacity is good and should be the default. When Metacity's maker puts out an egotistical manifesto that says all the features in a window manager that don't match up exactly to his way of working are just immature fluff to him, then I'm not going to want to use the thing he makes based on that philosophy. (Apparently, for example, he thinks that outline-dragged windows are frivolous fluff, while solid-dragged windows are the only useful way to do things productively, because of course all Linux users want to waste CPU cycles on the UI. And he uses the oft-repeated dodge that since computers are faster nowadays, you don't have to save CPU cycles. Bullshit. It's *my* computer, and those are *my* CPU cycles. If I'd rather use them on background processes like mathematical calculations rendering 3-D povray animations, then that's *my* business. And that doesn't change just because we measure speed by the gigahertz instead of the megahertz today. If the computer is ten times faster, I want that speed applied to the areas *I* want it applied. If I didn't care about stuff like that, I'd be using Windows.)
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
As long as KDE relies on the Qt libraries, it's in a vulnerable situation to the Trolltech buyout, or not even buyout, just buy-in, where nobody notices but new people are the bosses at Trolltech. And lo and behold foking of the GPL Qt wouldn't happen til it's too late. It's very easy to run any project into the ground, on purpose, or at least just make it annoying enough so that people silently quit it. I'm not so sure that qt is giving the best performance possible.. right now gnome seems spiffier and faster, though gnome has been going downhill for a while. So before killing KDE, Gnome must be killed off, so that people don't have another option to flock to. Patience, one at a time, methodical erasure. Or maybe I'm just paranoid. But heck, I love using free software, cuz it's free, plus, as far as an end user, it's nice to know the source code is there, and I can edit it if I want to.