Gnome and the growth of useless complexity

From: Alexander Viro <viro math psu edu>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:39:36 -0500 (EST)

Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated as "we
can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME codebase people
who designed the thing [GNOME] are culturally incompatible with UNIX.