Gnome co-opted by vendors? (Score 1)

According to the OSNews editorial:

I got the answer I expected from the Novell/Sun/Red-Hat people: "regarding market research, we care about it only when happens from our marketing department and to our customers". They don't care about the "generic" Gnome user. That's ok. Understandable. These guys have a business to run.

This seems to indicate that such influence has been co-opted by employers of the Gnome decision makers. Perhaps that's the uncomfortable truth.