[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[Murray Walker]

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. 

It doesn't lend itself to coming up with new paradigms. The one thing it's
very good thing at is designing software for other hackers, for other nerds,
really. 

That's their skill and that's their strength - there's a thousand nerds to
look at it. If something doesn't work it's going to be a debate on the
mailing lists and it's going to be fixed. 

But that's a bad method for complex decision management or business
professionals or this next generation of home users, because that requires a
very different project management approach, a clear vision. 

They're great programmers and that's very nice, and it generates good stuff
for that environment, but it's a little sandbox. 

For example they're so proud once they've ported [sic] PowerPoint. But that
doesn't give us a new way of doing presentations. 

To do that you 've got to follow business people around all day and study
them and ask them what they need.
..."

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