• lemmyreader
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    5 months ago

    They are not pioneers, they are Microsoft funded group (at the beginning, at least)

    In the beginning in 1997 GNOME was a direct response to KDE using Qt toolkit with a license that GNU with RMS did not like at all. Not sure why you mention Microsoft and funded ? When I search for it I see that M$ gave 10K to GNOME in 2022, more than two decades later.

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      5 months ago

      I was there back then, saw what MS did to BeOS and other competition. GNOME is slowing desktop Linux down all this time… People shold wake up already…

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        5 months ago

        So was I never saw MS involved. Gnome and GTK was in response to QT.

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          5 months ago

          It is entirely possible to do something in secrecy, you know? Read Muigel’s bio, especially last part where he spits on his creation.