Linux desktop adoption barriers: Open source apps development and integration
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| Integration and development of open source apps is what is needed to
| drive users toward the Linux desktop, said Jono Bacon, app development
| specialist for OpenAdvantage, a developer of open source software in
| Birmingham, England.
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| Developers and sysadmins couldn't care less about the release of Vista or
| the success of the Linux desktop, said Bacon, who is also one of the
| authors of The Official Ubuntu Book.
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| For our desktop to really hit home, we need to keep hammering on
| the details on the many different areas. Critically though, applications
| and integration is where the real action needs to happen. People need a
| reason to move to open source, and ethics alone simply isn't enough for
| most people. People want applications that can do what they need to do, and
| integration is essential to pull the threads together into one consistent
| system. Fortunately, this is exactly where we are going.
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