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toyg on July 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and...

We are talking about the era when GNOME 3 / KDE 4 / Unity were born, which was around 2007. By then, the QPL issue had long been resolved and nobody cared anymore.

rst on July 28, 2022 [–]

Title on the piece is "Why GNOME happened". The reason why GNOME happened is QPL, not legal threats from elsewhere years later.

toyg on July 28, 2022 | [–]

Yeah but the piece actually moves on from GNOME 2. The title is as confused as the author, or maybe intentionally deceiving.

I agree that QPL was why the original GNOME started.

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