Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 4, 2011 @03:06AM from the won't-somebody-think-of-the-penguins dept.

jfruhlinger writes "In a world where 'app' is the new buzzword, the development of native Linux apps is lagging. Some of this can be attributed to the usual community infighting (the latest version of which is argument about Ubuntu's Unity interface), but there may be something deeper at play: Linux advocates have for so long advocated browser-accessed software as a service as a way to break out of Microsoft's proprietary desktop. Now that this world has arrived, there's less incentive to work on native Linux apps. But of course, entrusting your functionality and data to a cloud provider like Google has its own set of concerns for free software fans."

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Quick question. by TruthAmongFanboys · 2011-11-04 03:23 · Score: -1, Troll

Between Gnome 3, KDE 4 and Unity this talk of desktop Linux should be completely dead. Exactly how much do they need to fuck up to make you realize it's over? Is Xfce - the complete reimplementation of the Windows 95 UI - your last hope or are we going to try to convince the masses to learn Haskell and configure Xmonad after that? Just how low do we need to go here?