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Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Tue Feb 19 13:26:50 UTC 2013


On 19/02/2013 07:44, David wrote:
> On 2/19/2013 2:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 09:04 PM, jonc wrote:
>>> On 02/18/2013 01:59 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>>> On 02/18/2013 03:31 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>>> 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 :-).
>>>>
>>>> Yes; astroturfing is always hard to spot.  BTW, I saw another term for
>>>> people who do that last night on TV: Cybershills.  Has anybody else
>>>> run across this term or is it new.
>>> Are people actually paranoid enough to think someone is paying people to
>>> praise Gnome 3?
>>
>> Well, no. But I am not expecting anybody who is being paid for his works
>> not to praise his works. Now consider that RH is paying a lot of the
>> Gnome folks, and draw your own conclusions.
>
> Seriously? Really? Either you and I *really* need someone to clearly
> translate our languages. Or? You need medical help.

I think Ralf makes an interesting point, actually. How many other 
current distributions not based on Fedora actually use Gnome 3? I 
haven't checked because I have no interest in using Gnome 3, but it 
might be an interesting thing to look into before drawing any conclusions.

Gordan


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