> ... the proliferation of GNOME forks and ongoing criticism of the project's core decisions make that clear. And yet, how many among the major distributions a

> ... the proliferation of GNOME forks and ongoing criticism of the project's core decisions make that clear. And yet, how many among the major distributions are defaulting to any of these forks? I see where the criticism is coming from. Let's not kid ourselves: what Emily Gonyer calls the "GNOME community", is just a very loud minority. Red Hat does indeed put their own interests first, like any other company, but they have an actual paying user base, who I would dare say is even larger in numbers than those supporting Gonyer.