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The timing on this seems off to me - I am wondering why would gnome and unity releasing a different UI/UX ca. 2010 be a response to Windows 95?
by IE6 4y ago
The timing on this seems off to me - I am wondering why would gnome and unity releasing a different UI/UX ca. 2010 be a response to Windows 95?
- creatonez 4y agoThe article is not saying GNOME 3/Unity is similar to Win95, it's saying that Steve Ballmer believed that GNOME 2 and KDE 3 (shipped by Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE at the time) were too similar to Win95-Win8, which Microsoft owned patents on. And therefore, because of rumblings from within Microsoft in 2006-2007, GNOME had to change as soon as possible, and KDE was fine staying the same because SuSE had been semi-blessed by Microsoft. (The premise of the article is factually wrong, I'm just explaining its thought process)
- lproven 4y ago[Article author here] Because, as I have cited in about a dozen links up and down this comments page now, MS threatened to sue between 2004-2007, then companies started to settle or work on something different.