Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

You're right on, especially about the documentation thing. I think the forces at work are already in play in terms of browsers, so we will finally get a portable web-rendering engine (not an entire application) such that everyone can derive different UIs from it, and yet display webpages consistently. It seems Mozilla is really coming to dominate non-MS platforms.

As for the docs, I didn't want to touch much of anything on Linux development until the advent of Mono; they're doing well to create a documentation system (obviously modeled after MSDN) that works great; the matter of actually filling it with useful docs (it's quite rough right now) will come as more people use the platform for development; when a dev sees something missing in the docs that they know how to do, often they will submit a patch.