"You would have thought someone had just run over a KDE user's dog last week.
"No sooner had the story started to break that Novell was making GNOME the official interface for its business Linuxes--SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and NLD (Novell Linux Desktop)--than the screaming began.
"Thanks to an opinion piece in LinuxToday, which implied that Novell was killing off its desktop line, people were already in a tizzy. Even after I pointed out that Novell wasn't axing its desktops, it was just committing to GNOME, the howls continued..."