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firtoz 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and...

Spoiler alert:

> The "why" part seems to be forgotten now: because Microsoft was threatening to sue all the Linux vendors shipping Windows 95-like desktops.

jeltz 6 months ago [–]

Which, last time this was posted on HN, was denied by a lot of the key people who were actually there.

lproven 6 months ago | [–]

Denied, but not shown wrong in any way.

Reminder: anything other than denial means admission, and that exposes them and their employers to legal threats.

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