Quotes of the week

It's well established by now that the problems of "window system", "rendering system", "input system", and "application remoting" are in fact pretty dang separate, and that the more you conflate them the worse your solution ends up being. You can thank X for being ~24 years of research into just how badly you can conflate them and get away with it, but it's just about reached the limits of what it can do.

So the lessons from the Symbian Foundation's journey to open source and back are basically in order for an open source community to flourish, that community must take priority over control and commercial interests.

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