I particularly like that RMS quote [LWN.net]

I particularly like that RMS quote

Posted Jan 1, 2016 17:51 UTC (Fri) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)
In reply to: I particularly like that RMS quote by bronson
Parent article: Quotes of the week

> For me, Gnome 3 and KDE 4 were the final nail in the Linux Desktop coffin.

I have pretty much the opposite reaction. Gnome 3 was the first step towards making a Linux Desktop that actually works, instead of trying to being a bad copy of Windows. The Gnome devs decided to work on an achievable goal instead of one that was never going to happen no matter why.

> What kind of aggressive tactics are you thinking of?

I can't imagine a desktop replacing Windows without its main sponsors committing blackmail and/or fraud. Why anyone would want to do this, I have no idea.

> Putting out a better system in every way, and charging nothing for it, is pretty darned aggressive right there.

As I've already said, this requires a level playing field. The desktop market hasn't been like this since the mid-1980s.

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I particularly like that RMS quote

Posted Jan 2, 2016 2:30 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

Gnome 3 is a bad copy of Android 3. And although they both ignore Linux conventions and standards in many of the same ways superficially, the Gnome designers don't seem to want to understand *why* Android's did so.

I particularly like that RMS quote

Posted Jan 2, 2016 21:48 UTC (Sat) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] (1 responses)

> Gnome 3 is a bad copy of Android 3.

JFTR, Gnome 3 and Android 3.0 came out less than 2 months of each other (Android in Febuary, Gnome in April) so this is obviously false.

I particularly like that RMS quote

Posted Jan 2, 2016 23:02 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I think it is more accurate to say that GNOME and others are all responding to the same trends and forces, that we are in the first generation whose primary computing experience will be with mobile touch OS and not the traditional desktop, whose UI expectations are definitely influencing design decisions today that are made with an eye on the inevitable future.