This smells fishy to me. (I said it more harshly, but realised that I went too far, sorry about that.)
Feel free to shoot holes in my theory.
GNOME 3 works on FreeBSD[1][2], you just don't get the robust and secure virtual terminal switching that only systemd's logind running on Linux can provide.
GTK+ 3 is now fully themeable with standard W3C CSS[3]. You may need to use Tweak Tool to change your theme, but is that really too much to ask for?
But please, don't let these facts stop you from cheering on large corporations as they trample all over open source projects.
[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/02/19/on-portability/ [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2014/03/26/gnome-3-12-and-freeb... [3] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkCssProvider.html
I did not say or intend to say "good for them, I hope GNOME loses their brand", well ok I did say that a little. So let me state it differently - that many of their own design decisions also were against open (libre) source philosophies.
It entitles you to a number of rights on the resulting product, nothing less and more. And that's already quite a lot.
https://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systembsd.git...
"First they came for Gnome, and I did not speak out..."
No idea where you go from "this open source project doesn't develop in the direction I expect/want" to "this open source project deserves to lose their brand".
But really, it must be pretty disheartening to see people accuse your organisation of running a scam, just because they don't like design decisions a number of developers on a handful of your products made. Especially when the software in question has nothing to do with the discussion.