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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by smoldesu on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:00PM (#29930454)
GNOME has a foundation[0] that is responsible handling their funding as well as setting goals/standards for their desktop. As a matter of fact, they're the most well-funded desktop environment in the entire Linux desktop landscape. I think criticism is fair, especially when it pertains to removing features and working against the community using funding that is, in large part, raised by said community.

[0] https://foundation.gnome.org/

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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by awrmc on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:19PM (#29930555)
That isn't how gnome works, being decentralized and all. The foundation pays for very little of the development and has little to no influence over what developers actually do. If you wanted the community to have more influence over development, the way to do that would actually be to get more money for the foundation so they can afford to hire more developers from the community. Right now, they don't employ any. The funding they have now is actually shockingly small for a nonprofit based in the USA, and almost unnoticeable compared to what a tech company based in the USA would have.

Removal of features would still happen though because that's a natural part of any software project responding to the ever-shifting priorities of a large group of users.

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