"A few of you wrote in to say that you'd heard Novell was creating a new GUI for its Novell Linux Desktop package which would be a blend, a mélange, a combination of these two. So I looked into it..."
"But when I spoke to Ted ('the Rev') Haeger--who was quoted extensively in the article--he thinks that Vaughn-Nichols only got half the message. As Ted and his colleague Bryan Cardoza explained to me, 'Our intention was to select specific *components* from each desktop environment and make use of them in the other desktop environment...'"