Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)

Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)

Here's a thought. The people who actually work on desktop Linux don't give a flip what Mr. Quinn thinks is "holding them back." People on the outside of the project always seem to believe they have some objective measure of success, but really the only measure of success is this: do the developers think the software resembles what they intended out to create?

It's just like the Linux project as a whole. The natural, and unconscious, objective of Linux is to make a better platform for the development and propogation of Linux. Linux developers just want a better Linux development platform. These days you have professionals from IBM and Fujitsu who have goals other than these, such as making Linux work well for their customers, but that doesn't really change the main point that Linux does what Linux developers want to do, and little else. For a third party non-contributor to come along and say "Linux needs to do this", which happens in the trade press almost every week, is to misunderstand the nature of the project.