internetnews.com: Ximian's Friedman Plots Linux Desktop Growth

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"The co-founder of the GNOME Unix and Linux development platform and enterprise Linux desktop project Ximian said he's had it with all this talk about Linux as the future of desktop computing.

"'I'm sick of being the future,' Nat Friedman told a standing room only audience during a keynote speech at the Real World Linux Conference here. 'I want to be the present.'

"Friedman, currently the vice president of research and development at Novell's Ximian Service, said for that to happen, the Linux Desktop has to keep evolving..."

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