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Re:Introduction to Gnome 3 by rbanffy on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @08:27PM (#2118178)
For a lot of people, Justin Bieber is a great musician. Popularity is not a trustworthy indicator of artistic merit.
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Re:Introduction to Gnome 3 by BCM43 on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @08:34PM (#2118194)
Popularity is not a trustworthy indicator of artistic merit.

How else would you define it?

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Re:Introduction to Gnome 3 by rbanffy on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @09:01PM (#2118241)
Artistic quality is one of those things that defy definition. It may be that it's aesthetically pleasing, or it may be that its design communicate some other inner quality or a completely different idea. It may be that the inner quality, in itself, has some aesthetic quality, much like a beautiful mathematical proof.
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