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    Don't dare to question Gnome (lemmy.world)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago....

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt in that they misspoke when saying trademark. Clearly it’s not that, but those nuances are not universally known.

    And branding is not something up to popular vote. It’s, by definition, an image someone or some organization wants to project to the public. To them, they have spins for other DEs/WMs and that’s enough. And why wouldn’t it be?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

    And branding is not something up to popular vote.

    The suggestion wasn't about changing branding. It was about changing one default, just like when PipeWire replaced PulseAudio or when btrfs was elected to be the default FS. The product would still be called Fedora Workstation and kept its trademarks, logos,...

    To them, they have spins for other DEs/WMs and that’s enough. And why wouldn’t it be?

    Who is "them"? Clearly not the Fedora community or the community-elected Engineering Steering Committee. The ability to vote on that was taken away from them by one person unilaterally declaring that. FESCO would have decided to just keep Gnome. Looks to me like that one person would not wan to take any chances that the community-elected committee might vote differently.