[Article author here] I think you're getting your timelines and versions muddled up. The article is not about GNOME. It is about GNOME 3. GNOME 1.0 was in 19

[Article author here] I think you're getting your timelines and versions muddled up. The article is not about GNOME. It is about GNOME 3. GNOME 1.0 was in 1999. GNOME 2 was 2002. Ubuntu was 2004 and launched with GNOME 2 and nothing else. Microsoft's campaign of legal threats began around 2006 and intensified around 2007. Unity was released 2010 and first became default in 2011. GNOME 3 was released 2011.