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by smoldesu 1467 days ago
Yes!!! So many people are utterly oblivious to this, and the number of people I see trying to defend this as a "community project" worries me. Make no mistake: Wayland (much like GTK4 and libadwaita) is another piece of software designed to give the GNOME foundation leverage. Perhaps the insult to the injury is that even with ownership of large components of desktop Linux, the GNOME foundation refuses to create a complete desktop.
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akagusu 1467 days ago
Not only Wayland and GTK, but systemd, flatpak and basically all "standards" shipped from freedesktop.org, mainly sponsored by one company: Red Hat.

The problem is not only people think on these projects like "community projects", but the developers that build software upon GTK and the GNOME stack, because they know GNOME Foundation doesn't not care about 3rd party devs.

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