{"id":10060,"date":"2011-08-22T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/08\/22\/i-hope-the-future-of-gnome-is\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:32:46","slug":"i-hope-the-future-of-gnome-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/i-hope-the-future-of-gnome-is\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope the Future of Gnome is Not Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Shawn Powers that Unity has offended all that is good in this world by aggressively grabbing so much of my screen real estate much like Hitler grabbed the Rhineland.<\/p>\n<p>Well, OK, S.P. is not so Godwinesque in his language, but still&#8230;.  Unity = Microsoft-like marketing oriented philosophy in a FOSS world.  I predict Unity will die the death of misuse except in all those commercially marketed end-user systems that force Linux on the owners at places like Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Shawn Powers on Unity:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"emfield-emvideo emfield-emvideo-youtube\">\n<div id=\"emvideo-youtube-flash-wrapper-2\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"500\" width=\"600\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4A9GaOy5eI&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;playerapiid=ytplayer&amp;fs=1\" id=\"emvideo-youtube-flash-2\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4A9GaOy5eI&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;playerapiid=ytplayer&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"\/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"\/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noScale\"\/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"TL\"\/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerMode=embedded\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Shawn Powers that Unity has offended all that is good in this world by aggressively grabbing so much of my screen real estate much like Hitler grabbed the Rhineland. Well, OK, S.P. is not so Godwinesque in his language, but still&#8230;. Unity = Microsoft-like marketing oriented philosophy in a FOSS world. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/i-hope-the-future-of-gnome-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Hope the Future of Gnome is Not Unity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Cg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}