OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by computerishcat

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, recently did an interview with derStandard in which he discussed issues with Ubuntu's latest release, innovation, the future of GNOME, and other subjects. Perhaps the most interesting thing he said is that Linux does not yet deliver "a good enough user experience." Of course, you could say that of any operating system. Editor's Note: QT-based Gnome was also an interesting point-of-view.

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RE[2]: Comment by netdur

by elsewhere on Thu 17th Jul 2008 03:39 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by netdur"

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I don't think that's correct. Many KDE developers work for Trolltech^WNokia so they can influence the direction Qt goes. A good example of this would be the new QGraphicsView features in Qt 4.4 that were added at the request of Plasma developers.

Er, no. Tt/Nokia has maybe 2 or 3 developers working on KDE. KDE is their showcase "product", but their business hardly revolves around it.

Certainly they draw from KDE, such as their adoption of phonon, but that just makes sense, it's a reciprocal arrangement. But Qt is hardly controlled by KDE.

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