> > Ingo went so far as to claim that Linux lost the desktop market as the result of an ill-advised separation of projects.
> Aye, that's we OS/2, *BSD, BeOS, Haiku, reactos etc are such runaway successes on desktop unlike Linux.
Ingo is saying that the lack of ill-advised separation of projects is /necessary/ to be successful on the desktop, and not that it's /sufficient/. Please learn to distinguish necessary and sufficient criteria in order to start making sense.