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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Who cares about gnome?

[DunbarTheInept]

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.)