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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-04-13 09:41.

I'm not really part of Gnome community but I don't think that Gnome or KDE or Mozilla or even Linux is really the main point here.

The point is that with Longhorn MS will be launching a huge assault on open web standards. MS may be bad, but their plan is good. XAML/Avalon/Whideby I think will improve alot of things even at the MS Office level, particularly along collaboration lines. Regardless, I think MS will market the bejeezus out it as new and revolutionary.

If the Open and Free worlds are not already at or near the level that XAML/Avalon/Whideby and the attendant apps based on the technologies will be when MS releases Longhorn then we risk the abandoment of open web standards en masse and a major setback in Open and Free adoption.

I hope the community can come together to stay relavent.

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