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Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Leaves Desktop Linux Behind
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."
I love ubuntu and in fact I kicked Microsoft to the curb recently. However, it is attitudes like this that has kept Linux from being adopted en masse on the desktop. Someone needs to be put over someone's knee and have their behind spanked for acting like a child. I am technical and love digging into the internal aspects of Linux. However, being elitist and arrogant does nothing to help Linux gain traction in the desktop world. Maybe we SHOULD give that idea up if we are going to act like this.