Why Linux On Desktop 'Failed': A Discussion With Mark Shuttleworth

sfcrazy writes: Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, summed it in a few words: 'I think the bigger challenge has been that we haven't invented anything in the Linux that was like deeply, powerfully ahead of its time.' He also said that 'if in the free software community we only allow ourselves to talk about things that look like something that already exists, then we're sort of defining ourselves as a series of forks and fragmentations.' He added that it seems the desktop Linux people want to be angry at something. We wanted to do amazing things with Unity but the community won't let us do it, so here we are. He also commended Google folks for what they have built for Chrome OS.

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