Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

[Kernel Guardian]

After nearly 25 years of life with Unices, almost 20 years with Linux,
nowadays I'm pretty confused about future of Linux.
Allow me to elaborate a bit.
I'm convinced that the Kernel will survive and be better in the long
term future. RedHat and IBM as biggest contributors within it and
Linus as maintainer (leader, mogul ... ) give me faith in the future
of Linux. GNU fits well on the top of kernel. That is a rock solid
base for every Linux distribution.
Last 7 years all of my desktops, laptops, servers are locked down on
RHEL and derivatives and Fedora. I saw many changes, bad and good
ones. But last one, with fairly unfinished, not even close to, so
called Beta release, Gnome 3 DE is the worst what is happened.
On the other hand, I like the new look, many promising features, ...etc.
So, what is bad?
The bad thing is attitude of Gnome (developers, promoters, project
leaders) toward end users. They decide to abandon Gnome 2 and put
distribution maintainers in awkward position. Maintainers must use
(buggy, unfinished, untested) Gnome 3 if they want to use Gnome DE in
their distribution. Breaking compatibility at API level with previous
version put application developers in unenviable position. This is
almost unacceptable! ( because of that I understand Ubuntu leaders )
>From that point of view I wonder on whose payroll are these gentlemen?
This is not good way to promote OpenSource way of life, I'm presume.
I will agree with opinions that DE need some changes, fresh ideas.
Frankly, I don't see anything new that does not exists in other OS/DE
combination. It is good to have DE for mobile devices, tablets ....
etc. But that could be a related project with main Gnome, isn't it? I
use laptop only when I'm out of office. Desktop with 2 monitors is my
main workplace. ( someone would say "he is old-fashioned guy" ). No
one can convince me that all Gnome developers use only laptops. I
would like to see their workplaces.
I was shocked when I read the response of one of the Gnome developers
in a discussion about maximise/minimise buttons. I paraphrase the
answer: "we where not able to model use cases for them, because each
user uses them in different ways" ????? (I'd rather not comment this)

At the end, using of Free Software is liberty/freedom of choice. There
are many opportunities: KDE, XFCE, LXDE .... They have been created as
response from people who thought differently. This is a waste of
energy, time, resources, even money. As an old elephant, I could
recall the story about end of XFree86 project.

This is not the way how we can attract more young people who will
use/make/change OpenSource software.
Regardless of all these current events about Gnome, I will continue to
teach my students about importance of OpenSource, FSF, and freedom of
choice.

P.S. I like to excuse myself about my English in front of linguistic purists :)