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Inside Ximian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dry-erase dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux and Main is running a story of a visit to Ximian headquarters and a talk with Nat Friedman, Miguel de Icaza, and Jon Perr about GNOME2, Ximian 2, and getting Linux onto the corporate desktop. Interesting and funny, with lots of details about the place and the guys."

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  1. Re:Frequently Asked User Interface Questions by mackstann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many studies say that modern day UI must "look like a Microsoft product". Sorry to break it to you, Sun et al., but this simply isn't true.

    If only UI developers would take that to heart....I look at Gnome, I see a windows knock-off. I look at KDE, I see a pretty windows knock-off, with OSX knock-off bitmaps.

    Why can't the open source desktop people come up with something innovative and useful instead of trying to build a cradle for all of the MS converts?