LXer: IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: “Stop Copying 2001 Windows”
 

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"Stop copying 2001 Windows. That's not where the usability action is," Sutor said during his afternoon keynote....Sutor said he believed the many open source licenses, as well as the many software standards bodies, that exist today, would eventually dwindle to only a few. As it is now, five or six open source licenses cover more than 90% of the available software today. On the standards front, IBM planned to work hard toward reform over the next 10 years, believing only five or six bodies are enough to approve technology standards. “We've got to get rid of this,” Sutor said of the current labyrinth of standards and the bodies that approve them.

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