On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Jonathan Masters <jcm(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I think the point is that it takes many years to build traction. We
should consider we have established players in desktop and a trend towards Android, iOS,
MeeGo etc. powered devices in the consumer space over a pure play Linux distro. We would
have been better served in the traditional distro space in building on the traction we had
with GNOME 2. After all, it finally was offering a fairly compelling alternative. My blog
has more personal opinion on consumer behavior and desktop adoption - my belief is
innovation should happen in the new platform space, not on traditional desktops. Throwing
away 30 years of tradition is not actually what mainstream computing users want.
"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster
horse.” – Henry Ford
Horses even had a *much* longer tradition then the windows 95 style desktop ;)