Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:06 UTC, submitted by melkor
"I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation."
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You might want to inform yourself before calling Joe Barr of Linux.com an astroturfer ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Barr
No , the problem is a real one at the Linux foundation.
Where as GNU/Linux offer a real and working solution on the desktop very few of the player in the Linux foundation are Leader or pushing for GNU/Linux on the desktop , even clearly the opposite.
Take your previous desktop vendor listing , none of them are part of the Linux foundation , why ? Cost of entry and Linux foundation lack of desire to have them included because of what they do are the main reasons.
The Linux Foundation does not use it's financial ressource and clout to make a sensible desktop strategy.
Just list the member list and you will see that it's mostly hardware vendor that sale workstation and servers solution. Note : Adobe is in there , if there is one company that windows switching to GNU/Linux people want there desktop product on GNU/Linux it's Adobe.
Is point is simple to summarize , he looked at the conference subjects and can see that desktop is not being discuss and a priority on the agenda, he is about 10 years too late , but the community as always ignored the Linux foundation as long as they pay for the Kernel development and contribute in some way.
He is clearly not saying that GNU/linux is not ready for the dekstop.