GNOME an Apple copy? Unity's not developed by the GNOME devs but by Canonical. Since Lucid, the behavior of Ubuntu has shifted somewhat to match that of Mac OS

GNOME an Apple copy? Unity's not developed by the GNOME devs but by Canonical. Since Lucid, the behavior of Ubuntu has shifted somewhat to match that of Mac OS X. Traditionally, buttons defaulted to the right hand corner of the window rather than the left and multi-touch tapping has been remapped to match OS X's style (two finger right click, three finger middle). Compiz has the window picker plugin similar to Exposé along with a cover flow-like window switcher. Now you've got he Unity Launcher with Spotlight/Quicksilver/Gnome-Do functionality. The Add/Remove Applications tool has been around since Breezy in 2005, predating even the iPhone App Store, and provided the same functions as the Software Center and the Mac App Store. GNOME can be tweaked to look like OS X or Windows or whatever you want, but it's because you can mix and match things like themes and window managers. If you just used vanilla GNOME 2.x with Metacity, I don't think you'd find much of a similarity. You could say that Ubuntu or GNOME3 borrows functions or aesthetics from other contemporary desktop environments, but GNOME "forever been an Apple Copy?"