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:Paging Mr. Roark by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-02 05:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Am I on bizarro slashdot? Is the worst kind of libertarian bullshit getting +5, Insightful, while someone calling it out as bullshit is getting a -1?
Re:i don't understand "the blame" game... by nedlohs · 2012-09-02 06:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Prediction: If Obama gets relected, he'll still be blaming Bush 4 years from now.
As he should. We had 16 years of Clinton + Bush destroying the economy. It's going to take more than 8 years to fix that mess.
Of course Obama is doing the exact same thing so rather than fixing it he is making it worse. But McCain would have done the same thing too, and so will Romney if he wins. So we'll be at 24 years of actively destroying the economy when the next guy gets a chance to actually make unpopular choices and actually do something beneficial.