Hey Federico, where do I apply to become one such superhero? :-)
No really. I agree with your statement. We do need more superheroes who for example decide to start building a programming environment (and btw. many other extremely important desktop components being used today).
But other than only the superheroes, we’ll also need the 3th party software solution providers. Most companies already have their software building partners. They aren’t going to change any of their infrastructure if their current software builder wont support it professionally. That would just be way to much of a risk for them.
And yeah for getting lots of specific things done, those superheroes are great individuals and I’m extremely grateful for their contributions to the softwares which I use every day. I’m even building my career using and learning from many of the components build by those superheroes. I thank you guys!
But in reality we still have two incompatible desktop development platforms. And it’s not helping acceptation of our technology in the large, small and middle sized businesses that don’t want to both employ a lot computer scientists and give them KDE and GNOME desktop development training.
Yet it’s (imho) precisely that what is very important to achieve Jeff Waughs 10×10 idea. Are the (in comparison with the Microsoft world) few GNOME and KDE developers going to support all the desktop software in this world? That would be insane! That’s not being realistic about the situation.
So yes, go superheroes! But we also need to start agreeing on specifics and seeing our very own problems. Our opensource and free software development models have flaws. And imho we need to address them today and now. Else I fear that our nice platforms will eventually become obsoleted.