+19 -----Original Message----- From: Simon MacDonald [mailto:simon.macdon...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:21 AM To: callback-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [Op Onion] How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop
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
