Icaza has no right to complain when he was the instigator of the DE feud with Gnome just as KDE was on the rise. Ts'o on the other hand, in the comments, puts

Icaza has no right to complain when he was the instigator of the DE feud with Gnome just as KDE was on the rise. Ts'o on the other hand, in the comments, puts the spotlight on how it is userspace that is the problem. Userspace devs keep breaking APIs and ABIs at whim, effectively playing out "perfection is the enemy of good" in real time.