Desktop Linux [forever forthcoming...]

[William Park]

It would be easy to stick with an API, if it was designed well
in the first place.  Regardless, we just have too many "Linux".
-- 
William




----- Original Message -----
> From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:08:43 AM
> Subject: [TLUG]: Desktop Linux [forever forthcoming...]
> 
> I'm not sure how many watched the recent back-and-forth between
> Torvalds and Icarza
> <http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html>,
> <https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk>
> 
> Michael Meeks has some interesting commentary on the matter that takes
> a different enough take to avoid being a "he said, she said", and
> which points at how systems like BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MeeGo Netbook
> failed.
> 
> http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-09-10-desktop-linux.html
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