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After the uproar on the internet covered here yesterday, Groupon appears to be backing down on its Gnome trademarks, and says it will choose a new name going forward.
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/#updated
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Update: Groupon Gives Up 'Gnome' Trademark
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(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Wednesday November 12 2014, @01:40PM
Darn it. I was hoping Groupon would bankrupt GNOME or at least expose GNOME for what it is.
Am I the only one hoping GNOME would lose this battle?
(Score: 2) by E_NOENT on Wednesday November 12 2014, @02:36PM
It sure would've been some good lulz...
I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:20PM
Nope. [soylentnews.org] Sorry for so many chains of links to my own comments but what else is there to say honestly?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 12 2014, @05:33PM
You aren't alone.
GNOME embodies everything that is wrong with open source software today:
- Disregarding the users.
- Forcing dumb and unwanted UI changes on the users.
- Destroying previously good software.
- Hipsters.
- Social "justice".
- The use of systemd.
- The destruction of the Debian project and distro.
We'd be better off without GNOME, in my opinion. I think it only brings us pain and problems these days.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by M. Baranczak on Wednesday November 12 2014, @05:41PM
Dude, get a grip already. Yeah, the new Gnome sucks, but nobody's forcing you to use it. Switching to a different desktop is trivial, and there's plenty of good alternatives.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by arashi no garou on Wednesday November 12 2014, @06:51PM
The use of systemd.
This is one that I simply don't get. Why tie your DE to an init system? Even if I was fine with running systemd, why should the DE and init have any impact on each other?
Of course I know the answer: By tying the two together, systemd is forced upon even more distros. Basically any distro that wants to offer Gnome as an option must now fully support systemd. Given that Gnome is the second most used DE, that's a pretty big fucking deal. Now, to avoid systemd you have to not only find a distro that either lets you build from the kernel up (Gentoo, LFS) or has taken an anti-Gnome and/or anti-systemd stance (Slackware), you have to hope that those distros don't cave to the pressure. And honestly, that's the only thing I truly hate about systemd: One day I won't have a choice but to run it if I want to use GNU/Linux, unless the above distros hold firm on their positions. BSD is always an option, but that's little comfort these days.