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The Register: "De Icaza, leading the Mono and Moonlight cross-platform .NET projects at Novell, has warned a "new crop" of developers pushing plans for Gtk+ 3 risk "throwing away years of work" on Gtk+.

They're also failing to recognize the value of having an ISV ecosystem working to put Gnome on Linux. Gtk+ is the tool set for building the Gnome graphical user interface, with version three the next planned major update."

Grzegorz shared one of his findings from an architecture review that he did some time ago for a global ISV for a product with components that originated on UNIX.

The first problem is one we already know: a lack of information. They don't know enough about Linux, and they are basing their decisions on half-formed bits of data that they gleaned from various sources.