Ubuntu to be more beautiful than Mac OS X?
A couple of weeks ago it was OSCON 2008, or the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. The conference website has details of the presentations and keynote speeches including one given by Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd and the Ubuntu OS.
During the conference Shuttleworth gave the Ubuntu development community the challenge to make the Ubuntu desktop more beautiful than Mac OS X. There is certainly no reason why an Open Source OS couldn’t meet this challenge, however Apple has always had the advantage of a closed platform which has made it much easier for them to support a consistent experience. As any user of Linux knows, making devices such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth work hasn’t been easy in the past, and will be a problem to challenge Apple in user experience because of the vast number of devices a PC based OS needs to support.
Watch Shuttleworth’s key note speech below on software innovation and open source development in particular.
Posted by Jon 
09.Aug.08
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