Pottering has a strange project background. As an example, he started with Gnome using CORBA for distributed components. He insisted on writing his own agent and tooling. He announced it was impossible because performance was impossible and latency too high. Never mind there were other implementations which were orders of magnitude faster than his implementation. At the time, researchers were using CORBA for real time avionics and other hard real time tasks. Completely destroying his argument. And he knew this. Apparently button clicking on a desktop is more taxing than real time avionics on low end embedded hardware (in comparison to desktops). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he's a CIA plant.