Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Jul 2009 22:09 UTC
With Google being in the spotlight with its announcement of the Google Chrome OS, and what this could possibly mean for Microsoft, something almost slipped us by: apparently, Microsoft has a big announcement coming next Monday during its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans - and it's related to Chrome OS. Let the speculation begin!
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I was specifically talking about 'desktop' FOSS projects and I don't think the ideology of projects like Gnome has changed recently - more like they got closer to the maturity and completeness they sought from the beginning.
A desktop project like Haiku is overwhelmingly fuelled by interest and enthusiasm of the developer base, but when the end-user community grows, you can't say the project will have changed direction or ideology.
In fact, I think some of the highest profile desktop FOSS projects do a much better job of attracting users than developers. I'm not an insider, but the Gimp is often mentioned as an example where numbers are skewed too much in favour of the user-base. OpenOffice is another, but for different reasons. We'll probably end up arguing semantics, but I think we both agree that a successful project needs a balance of both (Firefox, yet again, being the poster child)