Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle. The final victory came with the third piece of a corporate trifecta, giving GNOME the official nod from Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and finally Novell. The question is, will the triumph of GNOME lead to the rise or downfall of the Linux desktop?" Run Forrest! Run!
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2005-07-10
Anda_skoa,
Re: "Interesting. I knew that MSN Messenger is begin developed by Microsoft, but I didn't know that GTalk and Yahoo Messenger where being developed by Microsoft or Apple as well.
I always assumed GTalk to be developed by Google and Yahoo Messenger by Yahoo.
Or maybe you are wrong?"
I guess I could of worded that first sentence differently in the paragraph regarding lack of features for Linux users of chat messengers. Though I thought anyone reading further in the paragraph should of understood what I was referring to. It's true that a Linux user cannot really use both VOIP with Webcam to chat with MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger Windows users. As it is now Linux chat messengers such as Kopete and aMSN Messenger only provide text chat with limited support for webcam. They do not offer VOIP unless you ask the third party to open NetMeeting on Windows which defeats the whole purpose of using one chat messenger or even just claiming ease of migration to Linux from Windows. If small developers who either lack funds or experience to provide full featured messenging then it's time for developers like Novell, Red Hat and Mandriva that have both the money and resources to do something about it. Otherwise Linux chat messengers as they are today are just sitting on the bench while other messengers on Windows and OSX play the game.
Edited 2006-04-29 18:27