I particularly like that RMS quote

Hey, I am a happy Linux user, too. But, when I started to contribute to KDE over a decade ago I wanted it to become a replacement for Windows in the market. Not just for me (it already was), but everybody. I wanted my parents to, some day, come home with their new computer from Dell, running Linux.

And I am 100% sure this goal was shared widely. Today I feel this ambition is gone - the main reason I put both my paid and free time in ownCloud is that the community there certainly still has such ambition. See for example Frank's keynote from the conf this year: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AAIXIKQUvRw

I don't want to diss other people and their motivation, just saying what I think: the Linux desktop teams seem to have lost ambition and to have settled for doing it for themselves and a small circle of users, rather than aiming for world domination.

Tell me I am wrong.