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What confuses me is that everyone is getting angry about it only now. I was already complaining about it in April 2007! Back then I wrote this: “… consider that the Sugar GUI was dumbed down maybe a bit too much, and that it doesn’t resemble what those ordering the laptops expect a computer to behave like. Those are not the children that will use it; they are members of governments, who most likely already have been exposed to ms windows."

Take a little Motif, CDE, MS Windows and MacOS, (relative amounts may vary), stir, and what do you get? Probably one of GNOME, KDE and Xfce. Even the alternative window managers (only complete desktop environments were mentioned above) tend to look a lot like either MS Windows or MacOS window decorations. Apart from the really minimalistic things like EvilWM, Ratpoison, or Ion, it’s always the same minus-box-ex or “horizontal traffic light”.

Why the fuss about the idea of forking the Linux kernel to create a desktop-optimized OS? It seems the community doesn't grant the same freedoms as the GPL!