I particularly like that RMS quote [LWN.net]

I particularly like that RMS quote

Posted Jan 2, 2016 2:30 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: I particularly like that RMS quote by seyman
Parent article: Quotes of the week

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.

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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.