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Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later
Date	2025-04-18 06:16 +0000
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:50:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:49:13 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
> 
>> Change for the sake of change is silly.
> 
> Never seen that happen in the Linux world, that I can recall. Nobody is
> able to push their ideas onto the community without the latter’s
> consent.

When Canonical introduced the Unity desktop a good portion of the 
community defected to other distros. Given the timing it looked 
suspiciously like Metro envy.

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