I agree, this story is completely disheartening. The fact that ego's can get in the way or a better more elegant design is basic human behaviour. I'd hope to th

I agree, this story is completely disheartening. The fact that ego's can get in the way or a better more elegant design is basic human behaviour. I'd hope to think that anyone who is designing a product for their end user would be Abel to recognize that, but I suspect that is a bit too optimistic. Although I think splitting the kernel into separate products for different applications is a problem as well. What it really comes down to at that point is where are you planning on taking your product? Are you satisfied with a big market with large customers, or do you really want a huge market with nearly unlimited small customers. f Linux really wants to be on the desktop, they will have to moderate some of their features that are enterprise only to make the desktop experience better.