Open Source Developers Calling for the Next Desktop Revolution | Linux Today

Open Source Developers Calling for the Next Desktop Revolution

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 19, 2007

“During his opening speech at the GNOME Developers conference
GUADEC Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu distribution,
called for a common vision inside the project, an area in which the
project as a whole is currently lacking. Only a few hours later Red
Hat developers Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark presented their own
proposal for a reinvention of the Open Source desktop: The GNOME
Online Desktop.

“An idea which results from a few very obvious observations: For
one the whole industry is moving in the direction of online
applications, something which can’t be ignored…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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