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Interview with Sun's GNOME Hackers
Ur@eus writes: "Ever since Sun joined the GNOME Foundation people have been wondering exactly what they have been working on. To solve this we have done an interview with some of the people Sun have working on GNOME. The topics discussed include the background for Sun choosing GNOME, Accessibility, Useability and more. You find the interview at Linuxpower.org."
Having a commercial player on your team does not automaticly mean success. Hell, take a look a CDE. That had ALL the commercial Unix players involved, and they threw 10's of millions of dollars at it, though I think a lot of that money got swallowed up in meetings and red tape between the vendors.
A programmer writing something because his heart and soul is in it does a better job than one who's motivation is the next month pay cheque.
Macka
Ah, but I don't just want to email or surf the web. I want to write documents. I want to create presentations. I want to balance my checkbook. I want to play games. I want to listen to music. I want to create movies. I want to edit pictures I downloaded from my digital camera.
There's so many things I want to do with my computer, a dedicated-purpose machine wouldn't suit my needs at all.
I'll assume you're a developer. Don't you attempt to make your program as easy to use as possible, without sacrificing functionality? We have programs to ease tasks. We use 'ls' to get a directory listing instead of 'dumping to the monitor' (can you do that anymore?) and typing in the machine instructions to do so. So there we have one layer of abstraction, a simplification. Continue on this path of simplification and I'll wager that it's not impossible to create a very simple interface that is as powerful (perhaps not as versatile) as typing the instructions directly in hex to the CPU.
That's what I'm getting at. Get rid of the cruft.