> The blog post's author ignores that the GNOME project isn't willing to support basic interoperability with other software, and instead wants to make a GNOME-e

> The blog post's author ignores that the GNOME project isn't willing to support basic interoperability with other software, and instead wants to make a GNOME-exclusive ecosystem. Does it, though? "My way or the highway" fits very well in this context. "My way or the highway" can also be interpreted as "we don't give a single shit about other software and other people, and we don't care about interoperating with them". Basically GNOME is living in and pushing a world where there's only GNOME. And this is where things get tricky and I feel for the supposed "haters": so now you (GNOME) are a big project and you're pushing your own incompatible and non-interoperable stuff. Some projects will adhere, some won't, for any reason. So now if I'm using anything not GNOME my desktop experience is broken, because software that assume GNOME is running won't work well (if at all) in other environments. It just wasn't this bad before GNOME3 and this mentality shift.