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by digi_owl
3659 days ago
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More and more when i see a Gnome dev write about empowering "upstream" i replace it with empowering Gnome. They are hung up on user experience so much that they want one, canonical (heh), Linux distro that they get to define. Fedora, suse, Debian, Arch, it will be all the same with a different sticker on top. And they have the backing of RH in this, by way of Fedora and Freedesktop. Lets not forget that Freedesktop was actually founded by Havoc Pennington while working at RH on desktop matters. Frankly Freedesktop do not exist to actually foster interoperability. it exists to whitewash RH decisions. For me, Linux is better when there is a distinction between kernel, user space (and its various parts), X, and the DE/WM. The direction things are going right now means tightening integration by using systemd as the glue, and Gnome as honey. All to lure distros in and get them stuck like flies on, well, flypaper. |
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This is ludicrous to anyone who has worked at Red Hat at some point in their career. Red Hat internally is almost a perfect mirror of the community at large. There are thousands of differentiating viewpoints on pretty much any topic related to Free Software (including if we should call it Free Software).
The group of people working on desktop at RH are quite small, it's not the cabal you seem to imply.
> All to lure distros in and get them stuck like flies on, well, flypaper.
We're trying to build a modern operating system where the components are part of a whole. I'm sorry you feel that is some sort of trap. That is not the intention, in any way.