[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“This year, I’m giving up making predictions. By my
count, my record for 2010 was slightly worse than random chance,
and my inability to impress readers individually with cold readings
makes me conclude that I should leave fortune telling to the tarot
readers.“Instead, here are the stories that are likely to make headlines
in 2011 for free and open source software. The New Year being an
arbitrary division, the majority of them are developments of
stories that began in 2010, or even earlier:“1) The Response to GNOME 3.0
“The next major release of the GNOME desktop was delayed twice
in 2010 — predictably, since cleaning up and revising an operating
system is a large undertaking. Also GNOME developers are hoping to
release a polished new version, rather than a work-in-progress like
KDE 4.0, whose unfinished state received such a hostile reception
in 2008.“Unfortunately, the development versions released in 2010 have
not been received with unanimous enthusiasm, either.”