On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”
To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂
¹mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-li…
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in reply to GNOME • • •Congrats on 28 years and thank you for all of the contributions the GNOME community has made to the wider ecosystem. We are so fortunate that GNOME continues to build and share in a way that empowers others 🩷🤝
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in reply to GNOME • • •Why should anyone in their right mind donate to a foundation which works on an awful desktop for the benefit of usa big tech IBM Red Hat and Canonical, oh nearly forgot annother comercial company SuSe.
All support trump IBM RHEL very openly.
Those companys are also influential on the gnome foundation board.
My donations go to small companys or direct to developers not big dollars big tech.
jwz
in reply to GNOME • • •Benis
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in reply to GNOME • • •But, @gnome, #KDE is six months ahead! How will you catch up?
So few are old enough to even get that joke now! 😝
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