Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience

jcatcw writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, is using his millions to improve the Linux user experience, hiring people to work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE. He had doubted that desktop Linux could ever equal the smooth, graceful integration of the Mac OS. Now, between the driving pace of open-source development, and Shuttleworth's millions, it might be happening. Why not? After all, Mac OS itself is based on FreeBSD. Desktop Linux's future is starting to look brighter."

Comments

Re:Interesting.

[dunng808]

Audacity runs find on OS X. If you really wanted to help your friend you could have helped her install it.

Re:Flash content

[arth1]

If Adobe open sourced Flash, you could make decent cross-platform web applications in a matter of minutes all the while blocking Flash ads.

And if Natalie Portman threw herself at you and begged to be your slave, you'd be a happy man.
Your point, again?

Re:Gnome + KDE

[pugdk]

You forgot the millions of people agreeing with me. My gripe is with the wasted amount of money/time going into something I think will fail in the end.

That means Microsoft and Apple will win and that bothers me a lot.

bah, showoffs

[Trepidity]

I could've had a lower user number, but I didn't actually realize Slashdot had introduced user accounts until a day or two later when I noticed you couldn't just type in any name as the "by" field anymore.