Closing Perspective

• Take the long view as much as you can

  • X's worst parts are where we compromised on the long term view
  • X's best parts enabled Gnome and KDE long after standardization
    • Your design is your soapbox - use it wisely, make it flexible

• Open source advantages

  • Developers now number more than ANY company on the planet
  • Economic advantage grows as hardware becomes cheaper
  • And growing (still approximately exponentially)....

• Where will we be in 5 years? In 10 years?

  • This time, we have the fundamental economic advantages..
  • Can we overcome open source's problems, truly change the world?