[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“It’s a song we’ve heard before: all the apps will live in the
browser, so who cares what the OS will be? Observers of
Linux–including me–have raised this up as the one big chance to
capture desktop share, because Linux will have the same access to
apps as all the other operating systems. OEMs, the sales pitch will
go, why pay Microsoft all that money when you can just load up
Linux to give your customers what they need!“But increasingly I have some doubts that any Linux distribution
is going to be able to get its collective act together in time.“Communities are still fighting over GNOME3 vs. Unity vs. KDE
vs. everything else, and the split between LibreOffice and
OpenOffice.org may have delayed any chance for either office suite
to be ported to the cloud in time.”