Re:Convergence? (Score 1)

I agree that there are lot's of good things happening for the OSS movement, but I think convergence is not quite the word that I would use. Luckily we have a couple of great development teams that are putting tremendous effort into being able to offer quality products for our community. But think about what community we are. We read Slashdot, "News for Nerds". Every one of us is some kind of advanced user, or power user who doesn't mind knowing how the system is working or how the system can be altered. But if Linux and the OSS community really wants to hit the desktop.

GNOME, KDE, Eazel, HelixCode, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, FVWM etc.. ....... What do I tell my mother when she asks me which programs to use, or how to use them. It is not self evident, and there are quite a few differences between the different sets. My actual favorite is to use a mixture of all of them, but the average user can't handle those kind of choices. GNOME has a great model, KDE is more intuitive, and hopefully Eazel will create the desktop that will add that feature to GNOME. I'm sorry to say, and I never thought I would, but I think it is time for some real convergence and interoperability between the .

IMHO