How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop

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Klint Finley discusses Miguel de Icaza's thoughts on how OS X killed Linux on the desktop (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/osx-killed-linux/): 'de Icaza says the desktop wars were already lost to OS X by the time the latest shakeups started happening. And he thinks the real reason Linux lost is that developers started defecting to OS X because the developers behind the toolkits used to build graphical Linux applications didn’t do a good enough job ensuring backward compatibility between different versions of their APIs. "For many years, we broke people’s code," he says. "OS X did a much better job of ensuring backward compatibility."' This, he says, led developers to use OS X as a desktop for server programming. It didn't help that development was 'shifting to the web,' with the need for native applications on the decline

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/08/29/0438211/how-apple-killed-the-linux-desktop