I'm glad to see the open source community actually try something different, interesting, and better.
I'll give you two of those three. GNOME 3 is certainly an interesting concept and different, but I have yet to see it justify itself as an "improvement".
How dare those pirating alien scum view our IP without a license!
I've got it! Instead of trying to get Congress to fund "space exploration", we get them to fund "IP infringement notice deliveries to extrasolar nations".
But how do you patent a tree and retire a millionaire after the IPO?
I'm no biblical scholar but isn't that what God did?
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn