So this is an interesting piece with Miguel de Icaza on why GNOME lost out not only to Apple's OS X but other Linux window managers.
*And he thinks the real reason Linux lost is that developers started > defecting to OS X because the developers behind the toolkits used to build > graphical Linux applications didn’t do a good enough job ensuring backward > compatibility between different versions of their APIs. “For many years, we > broke people’s code,” he says. “OS X did a much better job of ensuring > backward compatibility.”* Just something we should continue to be mindful for as we rush into the future. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/osx-killed-linux/ Simon Mac Donald http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
