This is what I remember too. The author lays out a lot of the "why" detail on the business/legal side that I didn't know. But what I do remember is waking up on

This is what I remember too. The author lays out a lot of the "why" detail on the business/legal side that I didn't know. But what I do remember is waking up one day in 2009 or whatever and discovering that everyone had drank the tablet/convergence Kool-aid and that Unity and GNOME3 were both going full modal/dock. At the time I actually just assumed they were doing it to stay relevant with the impending Windows 8 release (heh), which was shooting for all the same goals with mostly the same ideas. I also recall being annoyed that they were ripping away something (GNOME2) stable that worked just fine, but also that Unity was an absolute cinch to learn and a true joy to use. In the end, though, I ended up on KDE Plasma.