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Mike Gunderloy's post on FOSS Factory got me thinking about what Linux needs to gain mass market acceptance. After thinking about it, I've come up with a list of four things that the Linux community needs that aren't (as far as I know) yet in the works.

This isn't a list of impossible goals -- all of these things are attainable if the Linux industry and community were to decide that they are priorities. That's not to say that they'd be easy to accomplish, but the Linux community has proven good at working together when it's important.

It's long been a weakness of open source software development that only projects that interest developers get finished. While some view this as a proper democratic process, others point to the disproportionate number of programmer tools as compared to end-user applications, or complex projects that have languished because the work is too hard. New site FOSS Factory wants to tweak the process a little by making it easy to incent developers with cash bounties.