sounds like a typical extra-super-hyper-important-emergency effort under the constant gaze from the very top through the thick E/S/VP/etc. layers of CYA mediocrity eager to report up the successful completion of a glorious effort to the glorious leader in a typical BigCo where engineering culture is faltering while nobody who matters cares (or even able to care) Well, at least it was that way back at Sun :) ... Or may be it was just a one bad day at Apple. Though many people like to argue that engineering culture is exactly to prevent the "bad" days from happening...
after i first time last year (our BigCo like any other BigCo likes SUSE and that one isn't fast on bringing in new changes) faced GNOME 3, i was wonderstruck at the engineering feat what it is ( no joking, great engineering achievement, just for different world, and it took some effort to downgrade back to GNOME 2). Seeing GNOME 3 made me completely sure that Linux desktop of our dreams just isn't coming.
