If this starts another flamewar please ignore: Why do you think Linus Torvalds made the statement against Gnome?

[Yiannis <odysseus lost gmail com>]

For those not knowing the story... Linus Torvalds made the following
statement and is posted on 13/12/05
"This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use
it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since
reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do."
"Please, just tell people to use KDE," Torvalds concluded.

For the full story have a look on the following link:
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/4022

Please make a note that I do not wish to start another flamewar.... In any
case I am a Gtk developer... I just would like to listen to other
opinions...

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-- Yiannis