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amanwithnoplan on July 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and...

Not only is it nonsense, you can look at GNOME's own wiki and various blog posts for its (publicly stated) design history: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/DesignHistory

The TLDR is that nothing was ever said about implied threats to sue, and it was all about "windows/virtual desktops are hard, let's _simplify_ everything!" Also, netbooks/iPhones were all the rage then, so you see where the modal design (for small screens) and giant padding (for touch input) came from in order to accommodate any possible convergence in the future or whatnot.

lproven on July 28, 2022 [–]

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Because saying so would be an admission of infringing the claimed intellectual property.

If any company had said, then or now, "we did this because we needed something non-infringing" then that would be a statement confirming guilt.

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