Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Leaves Desktop Linux Behind

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 14, 2008 @05:41AM from the time-to-push-back-on-corporatization dept.

Linux.com's Joe Barr has an interesting commentary about the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and the astounding lack of attention for desktop Linux. Now, a great deal of the monetary support driving Linux these days comes from companies with a vested interest in "big iron" but hopefully this won't completely eclipse the rest of the community. "Before I learned that the press was not welcome in any of the working-meetings at the summit on days 2 and 3, I saw and heard rumblings of discontent from more than one ordinary Linux desktop user. One example: a top-ten list of inhibitors to Linux adoption, created by a committee of foundation members, contained nothing at all relating to desktop usage. Nothing. Everything on the list was about back-room usage. Servers. Big iron."

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That was why it was founded! by Per+Abrahamsen · 2008-04-14 05:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

The Open Source Development Labs was formed by "big iron" vendors to cooperate on the development Linux for of enterprise computing, so I don't find it surprising that is where their focus is. OSDL later merged with the Free Standards Group to form the the Linux Foundation, but OSDL was the larger part of the merge.

I don't find that more noteworthy, than freedesktop.org focusing on the desktop. Different organization have different focus.