Wow. This is a real shock, it wouldn't be out of place for April 1st. This is good news for linux on the desktop. Not that diversity isn't good, but Unity has

Wow. This is a real shock, it wouldn't be out of place for April 1st. This is good news for linux on the desktop. Not that diversity isn't good, but Unity has been stale for years while Gnome has been progressing, but suffering from the fragmentation that Canonical caused. Hopefully this will result in more contributions upstream, which will benefit all linux distributions. This was always the main complaint with Canonical.