[PLUG] 2008: Linux's year on the desktop

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 22:44:34 UTC 2008


# from M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
# on Saturday 02 February 2008 10:12:

>What I think is more of a problem than "inconsistencies in the user
>experience" is a lack of *real* innovation in the user experience.

I don't think we're lacking innovation (as long as you accept that the 
demo of said innovation may not have any practical use.)

I think it really comes down to the lack of real *money* to pay for 
professional effort focussed on user experience.  It doesn't help that 
users spend all their money on lawn ornaments.

Money (and funded effort) in open source tends to go toward uptime, 
throughput, security, and similar features with widely accepted and 
clear-cut cost/benefit breakdowns.

Anybody know what happened to the OSDL desktop initiative?

--Eric
-- 
If the collapse of the Berlin Wall had taught us anything, it was that
socialism alone was not a sustainable economic model.
--Robert Young
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