"Knoll was followed by Mark Shuttleworth, president of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. Shuttleworth spoke on "13 Lessons for the Free Desktop.
"He also suggested that KDE move to a more predictable, say every six months, schedule. Then, to make the Linux desktop even more attractive to users and ISVs (independent software vendors), Shuttleworth suggested that KDE, GNOME and OpenOffice.org agree to a common, regular release period. This, he believes, would lead to the Linux desktop gaining in popularity at the expense of proprietary operating systems like Microsoft's Vista."
