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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by bart decrem on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @08:33
People keep saying this and it's blatantly wrong.

The GNOME Foundation is run by a board of directors which is elected by the members of the GNOME community. Elections just ended and we had our first board meeting yesterday.

The corporations who are supporting GNOME are on an Advisory Board which has no decision-making authority whatsoever.

So the GNOME Foundation is NOT run by the companies on the Advisory Board.

If you go to http://foundation.gnome.org, you can read more about this.

Let me know if I can further clarify this.

Congratulations on the launch of the KDE League.
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Really?
by bruce on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @09:03
The term adviser reminds me of the cold-war term "adviser", as in such-and-such third-world country had US/Soviet advisors.

In reality is that the corporate advisors can and probably will influence the decision making processes due primarly to the influence that these
organizations can exert. Pressure could include threatening to withdraw unless a certain agenda is followed.
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  • Re: Really?
    by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @10:39
    And why should there be pressure?
    It's not like that the companies can force the foundation to do something.
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  • Secret message from the CIA
    by Chris Bordeman on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @12:28
    I strongly _advise_ you you keep your opinions to yourself, Bruskey! <g>
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  • Re: Really?
    by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @14:40
    Same thing could happen on the League:
    "If you don't do as we tell you, you won't get any publicity..."
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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by reihal on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @09:04
Gnome have kommisars, KDE have bazaars.
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