Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Red Hat's desktop team has posted an item saying that the company has no plans to offer a "traditional desktop product" anytime soon. "An explanation: as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers. The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people still perceive that today's Linux desktops simply don't provide a practical alternative. Of course, a growing number of technically savvy users and companies have discovered that today's Linux desktop is indeed a practical alternative. Nevertheless, building a sustainable business around the Linux desktop is tough, and history is littered with example efforts that have either failed outright, are stalled or are run as charities." The article goes on to list a number of desktop-oriented things that Red Hat is working on.

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