36 Quotes by Nat Friedman

We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,

We expect that developers from a variety of projects will come to Better Desktop.org and review these results to see firsthand how they can improve the design of different applications, desktops and distributions. Ultimately, improved usability will help Linux succeed on the desktop.

Now Linux has a world-class totally modern graphics system that will last us for the next decade.

Apple is cool. We like Apple. But we're not going to spend a lot of time porting and supporting our stuff on Mac OS X.

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

This is the right place to put it technically. The X windowing system lies beneath KDE and GNOME. All users, both GNOME and KDE, can take advantage of it.

There's a lot still to do in Evolution.

It makes it clear to people what a virtual workspace is.

I started hacking in Mono a few months ago for some personal projects, and was very impressed with how complete and usable it is.