Nat Friedman Desktop Quotations

Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.

GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.

Our goal of Desktop 10 is to build a really easy-to-use, powerful desktop for general knowledge workers. These are people who live in e-mail, in the browser, in the office suite -- not people who need a hundred different applications, but people whose lives really consist of just living in those applications.

Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.