[ale] Ubuntu and the price of Unity

[Preston Boyington]

James Sumners wrote:
<snipped>
> That's precisely my point. GNOME doesn't have to use Unity. The
> article implies that GNOME has to choose between Shell and Unity. They
> don't. So there is no reason they should fear that their code no
> longer belongs to them.
> 

I can't help but think that the biggest/real problem that GNOME has with 
Canonical is the simple fact that one of the most popular distros is 
dropping them in favor of another desktop.  If Unity is successful then 
other distros will emulate it and at that point GNOME becomes "just 
another desktop environment".

(apologies if this has been said.  I'm late to the thread)