[ Thanks to GregK and George Mitchell for this link.
]
The Associated Press has also picked up on the “dead desktop”
meme, citing Eazel going under and offering this quote from Eazel
co-founder Bart Decrem:
“We were probably trying to do too much too fast.
Frankly, we still have a couple years to go before Linux catches up
with Windows,” said Bart Decrem, an Eazel co-founder. “The reality
is that Windows is good enough for most people.”Eazel couldn’t promise profits quickly enough for skittish
investors focused on immediate returns, said David Patrick, chief
of Ximian Inc., which is developing a Linux desktop
environment.… “We don’t even talk about the consumer market,” Patrick
added.”