Peter Galli claims Linux will never make it to the desktop market . X kicks them all. I don't praise the shiny things in it - it just is the easiest to use UNIX based system I have ever seen. I am willing to forgive tiny glitches, which just had not been there in MacOS 9.
ALL companies still have a long way to go.
The next 10 years will be GUIs to control the application as such. I need a computer to do it - but I'd need a computer to print anyway. On the Frontier discussion group I posted an idea about inclusion of discussion group threads. I'd like to hear how other people think about these things. I didn't get much feedback to my ideas to extend Manila either.