The open-source development community is looking to head off Microsoft Longhorn before it escapes the Redmond corral.
Some key members of the community recently met to discuss ways the open-source movement can prepare for Longhorn, the next major version of Windows that is expected to debut on the desktop in 2006.
According to the minutes posted to the Web from an April 21 meeting involving members of the Gnome Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation teams, Longhorn's Avalon and XAML technologies appear to be the most potentially worrisome for the open-source community.
"We need to slow the upgrade to Longhorn, and since that is relatively costly to businesses, if we can make cross-platform applications work well, there is an opportunity for Linux migration," Friedman said, according to the meeting notes.
"If we're going to be competitive, we need to follow the open- source, de facto standard route, that we're all working on, rather than being bogged down with the standards process," he added.
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