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Linux Mint looks to fork more GNOME Apps because of libAdwaita
(blog.linuxmint.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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In the beginning in 1997 GNOME was a direct response to KDE using Qt toolkit with a license that GNU with RMS did not like at all. Not sure why you mention Microsoft and funded ? When I search for it I see that M$ gave 10K to GNOME in 2022, more than two decades later.
I was there back then, saw what MS did to BeOS and other competition. GNOME is slowing desktop Linux down all this time... People shold wake up already...
So was I never saw MS involved. Gnome and GTK was in response to QT.
It is entirely possible to do something in secrecy, you know? Read Muigel's bio, especially last part where he spits on his creation.