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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:31:42 -0700
Subject: RE: [Op Onion] How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon MacDonald [mailto:simon.macdonald@gmail.com]=20
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=20
> build graphical Linux applications didn't do a good enough job=20
> ensuring backward compatibility between different versions of their=20
> APIs. "For many years, we broke people's code," he says. "OS X did a=20
> much better job of ensuring backward compatibility."*


Just something we should continue to be mindful for as we rush into the fut=
ure.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/osx-killed-linux/

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald