[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Oct 16 13:24:47 UTC 2001


On Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001, Murray Walker wrote:
>I guess it is only the desktop they are talking about? Still, I'm not
>entirely sure I agree.
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22239.html
>"...
>Will Linux desktops innovate? No. I don't think of that as being the
>solution: because it's open source. 

Jakob Neilsen does talk a lot of sense, especially about Web design;
but in this case I think he's been caught by the fact that innovation
in free software is less obvious. A lot of what Emacs does was very
innovative, but doesn't really get the headlines.

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