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Canonical pushes for improved usability in Linux/FOSS upstream
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Canonical pushes for improved usability in Linux/FOSS upstream | |
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Submitted by sverma on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 14:09 | Code | Distribution | Linux | Ubuntu | |
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Canonical founder and Ubuntu's Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life (SBADFL) Mark Shuttleworth is putting his money where his mouth is. At OSCON earlier this year, he talked about beating Microsoft and Apple at their own game (although I think it should really be more about paving our own way than following someone's tail) of usability. Now, Canonical announces that it will fund usability improvements and push it upstream.The announcement is at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080911-canonical-to-fund-upstream-linux-usability-improvements.html and discussion is up on Mark's blog. This is very interesting in light of some very cool UI things I saw at OSCON with projects like Clutter. See more at http://moblin.org/repos/users/pippin/screencasts/2008-06-25.html [ printer friendly version | send this story | 37748 reads ] |
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