LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[JB]

Alan Cox <alan <at> lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> ...
> I do think there is a problem with the Gnome development model and its
> unwillingness of many of its developers to accept external input as
> anything but criticism of them personally. The foundation-list is
> currently involved in a fascinating example where many of the developers
> are attempting to block and stonewall a third party survey of desktop
> users and their interests. It reminds me of the behaviour of
> failing governments that are about to implode before an election is
> forced - a complete total denial.
> 

This is about a GNOME 3 hacker who got lost in life ...
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Give Me Back My Dog...

    A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in Texas when
suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

    The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how
many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?"

    Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully
grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

    The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet,
where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he
then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an
ultra-high-resolution photo.

    The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it
to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .

    Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has
been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through
an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a
few minutes, receives a response.

    Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

    "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.

    He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

    Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my calf?"

    The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

    "You're a GNOME 3 developer", says Bud.

    "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

    "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a
question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying
to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about
how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a
herd of sheep. .....

    Now give me back my dog. 


Reproduced with permission.
JB