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GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-their-toys-and-going-home dept.

blozza2070 writes "In a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that GNOME split off from the GNU Project and has proposed a vote. He was informed he will need 10% of members to agree for a vote to be put forth. At the same time, David Schlesinger (on the GNOME Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote. Stormy Peters said she doesn't agree with this, but then gave everyone instructions on how to proceed with a vote. She mentioned that roughly 20 members are needed to agree." The mailing list server is timing out as of this writing, but iTWire has the Cliff's notes.

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  1. Re:seems right to me by pydev · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the GNU project are about neither economics nor technology. They're about politics. They're about freedom.

    Politics is about economics and technology and freedom.

    The GNU tools changed the world and continue to change the world every day.

    Tell me, what code has Stallman or anybody else at the FSF actually written in the last five years that I actually care about? Most of what they have done is stamp their name on other people's projects, and even there, they have been making bad calls.

    They don't need to "innovate."

    They need to if they want to stay relevant. People are more and more developing in Python, Qt, Gnome, Eclipse, KDE, PHP, Java, Mono, Ruby, and other environments. Gnome may dissolve even its tenuous association with GNU. Little of what the GNU project actually does has much relevance anymore.

  2. Re:So they can't talk about proprietary products?? by Device666 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I am a programmer, so you don't need to tell me shit like: "A good programmer can sense the smell of bugs, terrible design, or poor implementation a mile away from the pile of computer code". But this has nothing to do with knowledge, it has to do with the style of leadership, meaning communication and using the right tone on the right moment. A good leader can sense the smell of bad leadership a mile away from an organisation ... It stinks and where is the leader leading?

  3. Re:Because? by Anpheus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, perhaps he's saying RMS needs to STFU because what he says can sometimes be detrimental to the propagation of his message?

    RMS uses fear, pure and simple, to promote the most extreme parts of his message.

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

    I don't even know where to start, when he starts posting stuff like that.