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[jonc]

On 02/18/2013 06:31 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:50:22 +1030
> Tim wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 15:22 -0500, jonc wrote:
>>> Still, FOSS has no reliable way to measure who likes what, or who uses
>>> what...
>> Or who despises something, but still carries on using it, anyway.  Nor
>> can you tell why, such as whether they have no choice (e.g. not their
>> computer), or any other reason.
>>
> In fact FOSS has no way to tell if the passionate advocates of
> nonsense like Gnome 3 are actually in the pay of evil corporate
> giants who want to see Linux destroyed and are deliberately
> inventing the worst possible systems (as long as we are mentioning
> things we can't know :-).
Well,  I do know that most of the attacks on Gnome 3 I see seem to boil 
down to it being different from Gnome 2.  All of a sudden, people began 
calling that the "traditional desktop".  Who knew Linux users were such 
conservative stick-in-the-muds?  I guess the developers should have 
packed it in and just fixed bugs, because perfection was reached with 
Gnome 2.32. ;-)

If FOSS developers and designers depended for their incomes on selling 
their products, then Gnome 2 would probably still be around, because 
there would be money to be made selling Gnome 2 apps.  Much like 
Microsoft has kept XP around for years.  But, we FOSS users are 
essentially recipients of charity (and unpaid testers of undone software 
released too early), given to complain when our free plate of food 
contains something we don't like.

What happened to Gnome 2 -- forked by MATE -- is, btw, exactly what is 
supposed to happen in FOSS.