Post A4bf9DM6HeXx3bWQYi by drewzero1@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #A4bf9CwZoY87mRa2m8 by vertigo@hackers.town
       2021-02-23T17:58:29Z
       
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       I'm not a fan of Gnome.  (Nor of KDE, so don't jump to conclusions.)  But this whole #peoplebehindgnome thing makes me happy.I've often thought that software should be treated more like books, where authors' names are prominently labeled and available for everyone to see.  Give credit where it's due.Gnome is a big and complex collection of software.  It takes a lot of effort to manage that complexity.It reminds me of the Amiga 1000, whose cases had the signatures of everyone who brought that machine to life.  And, yes, including the paw print of Mitchy, Jay Miner's dog who, by his own interview one day in my distant memory, "helped him design the Agnus chip" by barking loudly if a gate was not properly placed on the schematic.
       
 (DIR) Post #A4bf9DM6HeXx3bWQYi by drewzero1@mastodon.social
       2021-02-23T21:56:06Z
       
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       @vertigo I always loved how early Macintosh software cleverly credited the people who made it in the About screen. Over time, as teams got larger and Apple started sanitizing the interface down to brushed metal, the names mostly disappeared.Early Macintosh machines had the signatures of the people who created it molded into the inside of the case. As the case was revised, signatures were obscured until the case was changed and they were all gone. I can't help but feel that that's a metaphor.
       
 (DIR) Post #A4bf9DmKi7WwMxnNRo by vertigo@hackers.town
       2021-02-23T21:57:57Z
       
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       @drewzero1 Indeed; signatures were molded into the Amiga 1000's case too.  That disappeared with the Amiga 2000 and 500, though.  :(
       
 (DIR) Post #A4bf9EDz3JeFkijSXw by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
       2021-02-23T22:20:44Z
       
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       @vertigo @drewzero1 At least one version of BBC Micro contained the developers names in the ROM (although you couldn't normally access it as those address lines are mapped to memory mapped IO devices)https://tobylobster.github.io/mos/mos/S-s22.html