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>First, the GNU operating system needs a desktop environment
      that is 100% free software.  GNOME satisfies this need.</P
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>The second goal, by way of the first goal, is that people
      who use free operating systems will have a nice user environment
      in which to work (This works also on other non-free UNIX-based
      systems).</P
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>Finally, GNOME has a lot of really neat features that
      geeks are guaranteed to enjoy. Says one reviewer of this
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>Todd, GNOME has technical merits even beyond "open
	source" and "nice environment" and "world domination," as you
	well know...For instance, the COM clone and the use of CORBA
	for inter-operation gives me a woody.</P
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>This is certainly true (the fact that GNOME has great
      technical merit; I have no knowledge on the woody front.) Try it
      out for yourself and see!</P
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