[PLUG] Natty is here

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Tue May 3 04:14:19 UTC 2011


Oh, it might help if I provided the link to the article...

http://m.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-1104-linux-unity/8780

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If there's any truth to what's in this article than Unity and Linux
> consumer-oriented desktop is the direction Shuttleworth plans to take
> Ubuntu.
>
> => Shuttleworth opened by saying that the main point of Ubuntu 11.04
> with Unity was “to bring the joys and freedoms and innovation and
> performance and security that have always been part of the Linux
> => platform, to a consumer audience.”
>
> It also says that Ubuntu did do R&D with real users, they borrowed
> what worked from MS Win and Mac OS and then added "bold innovative"
> evolutionary developments of their own.
>
> => How did Canonical do it? Shuttleworth explained that it was a
> combination of user design testing with professional design work. “We
> committed to test and iterate Unity’s design with real users, and
> =>evolve it based on those findings.
> => Humble, because we have borrowed consciously from the work of other
> successful platforms, like Windows and Mac OS. We borrowed what worked
> best, but then we took advantage of the fact that we => are
> unconstrained by legacy and can innovate faster than they can, and
> took some bold leaps forward.
>
> Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
>



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