To support this cause, please sign the petition at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/yahoolinux/
Yahoo Widgets is a great platform that offers a lot to traditional computing of most users on the internet. Yahoo Widgets does not, however, support the growing operating system known as Linux.
Although Linux users have some widget functionality from some isolated packages, there's no widget application for Linux that offers the 4000+ widgets like Yahoo Widgets does.
Yahoo advertises the product as "the only cross-OS Widgets platform." I think it's time they actually stood up to that claim.
Gnome and KDE are the two most used Linux GUI frontends. Adding support to them, even marginally, would allow people to use Yahoo Widgets on truly every platform.
One step further, if Yahoo released a CVS of Yahoo Widgets, the development work could be spread among the community to fix bugs that are found, allowing Yahoo's involvement to be easier to manage, and more profitable in the long run.
In a recent study by Microsoft, Linux users have come close to or surpassed the adoption of Mac's in user base. Now that Mac's and Linux are both equal, why not support the growing operating system?
Linux offers an interesting product and advertising model, and would allow Yahoo to come closer to meeting their competition. Google, Inc. has already ported Google Desktop/widgets over to Linux.
Yahoo, will you rise to the occasion?
To support this cause, please sign the petition at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/yahoolinux/
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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