Did Linus Jump Too Soon?

Glyn Moody's take on the latest KDE improvements...

"One of the many great things about Linus is that he doesn't bottle it up: he speaks his mind on things that matter to him, without worrying overly about what others might say as a result. And when he mentioned in the course of an interview that he had switched from KDE to GNOME, others soon had plenty to say on the subject. But I don't want to revisit those arguments about which is better today: instead, I want to explore the possibility that Linus decided to jump to GNOME at precisely the time when KDE could soon leapfrog it in important ways.

"What has struck me while all the firestorm over Linus' comments and the relative merits of GNOME and KDE has been raging, is that meanwhile, in the background, a couple of very significant developments that might change the state of play in the area of free desktops have been taking place." [Read more in Linux Journal]

 

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