A task-centric desktop...

[Justin Gruenberg]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Secondly, *why* did GNOME die? Well, in part, because Microsoft is
> threatening it. You may not realise how much GNOME steals from the
> Microsoft Windows desktop - as does KDE, as does Xfce, as does LXDE -
> but it is a /lot./ Compared to the non-Windows-influenced desktops
> (like ROX Desktop or GNUstep, which you may never have seen because no
> distro uses them by default), *anything* with a taskbar and a
> hierarchical launch menu is a *direct ripoff* of Windows and all that
> design is patented. Microsoft has patents over the Windows desktop
> design and GNOME & KDE infringes some 235 of those patents.
>

How much of that can you actually backup with citations versus how
much of it is you spreading FUD?  Care to point out which Microsoft
patents GNOME 2 was infringing?  And, it's not like Gnome is dead...
Gnome 3 is out there, and Ubuntu still utilizes the majority of Gnome.

I'm going to have to agree with a lot of the people with the
Unity/Gnome 3 hate.  Neither of them work very well (although, Gnome 3
does work somewhat better, IMHO).  Actually, come to think of it, I've
never read anything positive about the change... and a whole lot of
negative.  I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but I think it
says something.