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An Interview with Jeff Waugh

Posted by michael on from the underwear-gnomes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxWorld has published a nice interview with Jeff Waugh, one of the core members of the GNOME community. In the interview Waugh talks about the upcoming GNOME 2.6, his views on software patents and on the involvement of the big vendors in the GNOME development process. Waugh is the current chair of the GNOME release team."

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  1. Waugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Well well well, what is he good for?" [Only the aussies here will get this. Nothing on *this* (Jeff) Waugh)]

  2. Re:Desktop Apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I do everything (word processing, email, spreadsheets, gaming) on Linux inside Gnome except for managing my finances

    Let me guess, all the Tuxracer you can handle?

  3. Untarring, compiling, etc. by Animats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, yes. Download, decompress, untar, compile, discover missing package, download, decompress, untar, compile, discover missing package...

  4. Re:GNOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gnome is pretty impressive these days, especially considering it is built on top of a paint program. ;-)

  5. Re:Waugh ? == Most hated ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What ? They are still allowing that guy to be part of that project ?