I think Stallman is anachronic and obsolete. Gnome should sepArate from the GNU, definitely.

Are you asking if Freedom is important any more. People often forget the history. It took many years for us to achieve a complete free operating system. If we don't value the freedom, we will lose it once again. Gnome community itself is against Mono. It is funded by MS through Novell. Why don't you people get it.

I love the fact that people honestly think Mono has anything funding wise to do with Microsoft. The Novell-Microsoft deal was focused on interoperabillity and patent protection, not Mono.

Idiots stop spreading FUD.

Also its idiots like Richard Stallman that make me embarrassed to use Linux and related stuff like GNOME.

Well, most people in Gnome don't wont it to be apart from Gnu; the few people that desire the separation are working by astroturfing and waiting that someone takes the lead, or that somehow the mass of Gnome developers go that way.
Some people in Gnome are very agressive and offensive. personally attacking RMS; just think if it was the other way around:Stallman labeling a Gnome guy a fascistic extremist. http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2009/12/13/to-gnu-or-not-to-gnu/ [+]
Just look at Philip Van Hoof proposing a split from Gnu, than "Lefty" jumping to second that vote http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-December/msg00056.html
Than Van Hoof saying he will support the proposal if some hyphotetical Gnome Foundationer comes forward http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-December/msg00061.html
And finally Stormy Peters comes up with this:
"I am *not* saying we should do this."
And points to the Gone Foundation membership list, and proposes a wiki page about the subject. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-December/msg00064.html
This three people want it badly, they just don't have the neither the guts nor the support.

> Also its idiots like Richard Stallman that make
> me embarrassed to use Linux and related stuff
> like GNOME.

And it is the idiot poster that shows how incredibly stupid users such as yourself really are. Linus can be credited for starting and shepherding the development of the Linux kernel. The kernel. And he deserves massive credit for licensing the work under Richard Stallman's GPL license. Today, Linus deserves credit for keeping Linux under the GPL license (though it should be moved to GPL 3), for maintaining strict discipline over it's development, for choosing excellent maintainers for kernel versions and development versions he isn't responsible for the relevant periods of time he chooses, and more. But for the uninformed such as yourself, Richard Stallman deserves a lot of the credit for the GNU utilities and non-kernel portions of "Linux" that he developed and/or co-developed over the last couple of decades. A day doesn't go by that I don't use some of those utilities and other Stallman created applications that allow me to efficiently and successfully run "GNU/Linux" on my laptops, desktops and servers. This is without a doubt true for anyone running GNU/Linux on servers in a production environment, and if not immediately, at some near future time, to rely on those utilities while using the desktop version of GNU/Linux as well.

Richard Stallman may "embarrass" you every time you use "Linux" or Gnome, but without Richard Stallman, it is highly unlikely that GNU/Linux would have developed into the operating system it is today, and more likely that you, I, and others would probably be using FreeBSD or some variant of that operating system. And without the GPL, it is highly unlikely that FreeBSD or some BSD variant would have become the juggernaut that GNU/Linux is today. It's the GPL that interested developers in contributing code that they knew wouldn't be locked up by non-free companies like Apple, instead of the guarantee of code being contributed back once modified and distributed, that the GPL requires, and BSD's license does not.

If Richard Stallman embarrasses you every time you use "Linux" and/or Gnome, then that exposes you as to how clueless you really are about the history of GNU/Linux development, and the debt of gratitude owed to Richard Stallman by every user who benefits from the use of (or even the threat of the use of) GNU/Linux. Thank you, Richard Stallman.

Its not so much GNOME needs to seperate from GNU but that either GNU needs to seperate from Stallman (and yes I am aware of the history and his contributions) - these days Stallman has stopped sounding rational and is doing a good job of sounding just as much of an extremist as any religious extremist: In short there is one view of the world that is correct. It is my view. You don't agree you will burn in the fires of hell.

The only place for extremists of his ilk and the religious kind is in a nice padded, soundproofed cell.

Take "to avoid presenting proprietary software as legitimate." - that is not a valid view of the world if you allow for practices other than your own - and does he view licences like BSD, MIT etc as proprietary, secondly if I write something why should I not profit - I'm not a systems / software engineer for chartiable reasons but to earn a living.