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?
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.