Ingo Molnar making some nice points on the Gnome 3 UI controversy.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117091380454742934025/posts/N5yRWsdXwGw
Kind of OT probably, but I think some parallels can be drawn/lessons
can be learned, since part of the discussion in these "let's spread
linux audio apps" discussions seems to be UIs.
fun fact: xfce's web server's traffic before/after Linus Torvalds
declared he switched to xfce some days ago
http://www.p0llux.be/linus-effect.png
cheers
renato