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by md8z 5y ago
Come on now, that is a pretty big stretch. And it's not even true, coreutils and glibc implement a lot of SysV and BSD compatibility. My point here is that GNU as an operating system is dead. People can make up some new goals for it bu
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by md8z 5y ago
Yes the desktop environments are still using GPL but those are already established projects, not growth areas. For newer projects it seems there is a shift away from copyleft towards Apache-style licensing. The newer copyleft licenses (GPL3
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by md8z 5y ago
To me that just further illustrates the point that GNU failed. I mean it's right there in the name, it's supposed to be "GNU's not Unix" but the only parts anyone actually uses are clones of Unix that get used on a
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by md8z 5y ago
I used to volunteer for the FSF and I can't agree with that at all. The FSF is politically/socially irrelevant and GNU has largely failed and been relegated to an extreme niche. The "free software movement" as it stands
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by md8z 5y ago
To me it helps to think of it like debt, if they get a lot of money (or contributors or whatever) and lose users in the process then that can be re-invested to acquire more users at a later date. The GNOME forks I have seen don't reall
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by md8z 5y ago
For GNOME I guess you could say it's the same way but they are more after volunteer contributions, not money. So they will make changes that tend to increase the contributions, sometimes it's a trade-off i.e. do we make this chang
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by md8z 5y ago
"Same goes for user themes, shell patches and tweak tools. They are all a testament to the fact that people want to extend GNOME, so your next logical step should not be blocking them out." I don't know what is meant here by
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by md8z 5y ago
Anyway I was thinking about this and I decided I want to respond to some of your comments to correct some of the wrong information in them. This isn't for me, it's for the reader who might get the wrong idea, and it's for you
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand how this is related, the FAQ explains that was a one time accounting error that was resolved. "As a result of these issues, we have only just now finalized our 2014 budget. In the meantime, we made assumptions b
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by md8z 5y ago
I've never heard that, I don't think GTK has ever been intended as that. It has been intended to be portable to other platforms, but even when it was only GIMP using it, it was intended as a Linux/Unix first type thing.
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by md8z 5y ago
So, all your assumptions about me are completely wrong, and you've also posted a number of things that are incorrect. Please avoid making assumptions about other people that you don't know, it's extremely rude. You are groupi
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by md8z 5y ago
Really? I don't mind how GNOME apps look on KDE. I agree it doesn't look or feel "native" but I find them to be just as usable as they would be if they were used in GNOME. But in any case Qt is intended as a cross-platfo
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't know what you mean bullshit excuse. Everything has a cost to test and maintain. It doesn't help to say that it's bullshit if nobody has done a real cost analysis. Remember that this is something that has to be mainta
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't really know the details of this but for some things it is non-trivial to ship even small changes on other platforms, even those will have to go through full dev-test cycles which takes time and money. About removing things, I d
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by md8z 5y ago
I have explained why I can't do that, I also think that stopping would be against the HN guidelines: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." Even as we disagree, I'
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand what GNOME using Wayland would have to do with any other DEs, those DEs don't really have to use Wayland if they don't want. Although they probably should for technical reasons. Also I don't think any
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by md8z 5y ago
The thing is, I agree with you mostly, KDE is much better if you want to do a "build your own desktop" type of things. I don't know that GNOME really has any interest in filling that niche when KDE already does it so well. Fo
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by md8z 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not saying that what they're saying isn't ego-based. I really don't know because I wasn't there for the conversation. What I'm saying is, the only way you can shift it from being ego-based to being f
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by md8z 5y ago
"The issue I dislike the entire GNOME project with it's software and philosophy is their mentality of treating users as idiots, removing options with false motives and attempting to impose their shit on other projects and applicat
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by md8z 5y ago
I accept your criticism but I still find your comment to be unconvincing, if you have reason to believe some statistics (such as 5% users) are faked, then it would be helpful to show: 1. Evidence of that 2. Other more accurate statistics th
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by md8z 5y ago
I think "well-known" is pretty relative, don't you? It's great if some people have a twitter presence or something like that but if they are not well-known within a certain project then it's not going to help much
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by md8z 5y ago
In my experience, it's not really seen as being good form to raise major criticism about the design unless you have some standing with the designers, drive-by comments don't really help a whole lot as the person may not be making
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by md8z 5y ago
It's just a joke, I have a lot of respect for the GTK (and Qt) teams. I don't think it's fair to call them toxic, they have a lot on their plate.
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by md8z 5y ago
I remember reading some good jokes about that a while ago. - GNOME's logo is a huge footprint, but it is not clearly established whether it is a huge memory footprint or a huge disk footprint. - It has been theorized that the logo was
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by md8z 5y ago
"I can near-perfectly recreate Mojave with extra bells and whistles" I think the GP comment addressed that, e.g. "don't compare it to macOS". In my experience, GNOME is best if you don't try to fight with it an
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by md8z 5y ago
I see many comments to this effect, but I think it's a misconception. I really doubt changing the governance is going to get issues like thumbnails fixed. From my perspective, what is actually missing is a lack of money and/or qua
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by md8z 5y ago
"There's definitely a war, but it's mostly a war of attrition at this point. You're with one or the other" I really can't agree with this, I think both are great with their own unique strengths. Both projects c
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by md8z 5y ago
I know who Richard Stallman is, I've met him several times and I used to volunteer for the FSF. The GPL says that the user is allowed to share modified versions with other users. It does not say that the original author is required to
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't know what you mean spirit. To me the spirit has always been "here's some code, do what you want with it" i.e. the exact opposite of what you're saying. I think you may have some missed expectations, I can&#x
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by md8z 5y ago
I am not saying that's a dichotomy, I mean this purely as a function of resources. Sure you can do both but that takes up twice as much time as if you only did one of them. So however much you want to do of either is really up to the p

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