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Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple

blogs.zdnet.com — Bob Sutor, IBM’s VP of open source and standards, recently declared at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas that the open source world needs to create new and innovative user interfaces distinctive to Linux desktops if they want to pose a greater challenge in the desktop space. It’s like speaking Japanese in France.

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  • inactive, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2However, familiarity is a good thing when you want people migrating from other operating systems.
    I think it would be best to look at every piece of the user interface on each OS, and determine what is good, what is bad... then emulate, but also innovate. Linux is open source... you have the power to do this.

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