Being limited to only one operating system would make it more closed. P.S. Quoting from Wikipedia: "Open systems are computer systems that provide some combina

Being limited to only one operating system would make it more closed. P.S. Quoting from Wikipedia: "Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability, _portability_, and open software standards." [1] Also the name GNOME is an acronym of GNU Network Object Model Environment. It refers to GNOME’s original intention of creating a distributed object framework similar to Microsoft's OLE. [2] If GNOME is considered an open system despite working only on Linux, the same could be said about OLE, but I doubt many would agree with this. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_%28computing%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Name