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ZDNet – Linux: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 27, 1999

Thanks to Christopher
Fitch
for this link.

“By now, anyone following Linux news knows about Computer
Associates, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and the truckload of others
bleating how much they all love Linux. Hidden among all these
commercial vendors discovering the free software community, we also
have the opposite. For the first time ever, a free software project
is using commercial marketing techniques.”

“The subject is GNOME, a Linux desktop designed to ease GUI
development, simplify communications between applications, and
offer a consistent look and feel. The technology behind GNOME is
actually quite good. But what makes it most interesting is its
active publicity campaign run jointly by Red Hat and the Free
Software Foundation (FSF).”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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