Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 2, 2012 @05:03AM from the who's-to-blame dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds has poured scorn on claims made by the co-founder of the GNOME Desktop project, Miguel de Icaza, that he (Torvalds) was in any way to blame for the lack of development in Linux desktop initiatives. De Icaza wrote in his personal blog: 'Linus, despite being a low-level kernel guy, set the tone for our community years ago when he dismissed binary compatibility for device drivers. The kernel people might have some valid reasons for it, and might have forced the industry to play by their rules, but the Desktop people did not have the power that the kernel people did. But we did keep the attitude.'" Update: 09/02 18:39 GMT by U L : The original source of the comments (and an exciting flamewar between Free Software heavyweights).

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Re:Re-inventing the wheel by jones_supa · 2012-09-02 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny

The reason why so many people stick with XP, or Vista, or even Windows 2000 is because it just works.
BTW there is a Japanese guy who has made a improved version of Windows 2000 KERNEL32.DLL, making it possible to run some software that should work on XP only.
Re:Bye, bye by gmhowell · 2012-09-02 11:45 · Score: 5, Funny

If you think ratpoison is crazy, wait until you hear what they call their Photoshop wannabe.

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Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Re:OK, but that's YOUR OPINION. by bipbop · 2012-09-02 12:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Stallmane and GNU ***DO*** have the last word on what the GPL says. What do you think the "G" stands for?
I don't know. I tried a depth-first evaluation, but it's not done yet!