I found a very strange post on OSNEWS (http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10089) today.  It is entitled, XOrg Catches Up with Longhorn/Mac OS X's 3D Desktop Acceleration

It is talking about some X.org (http://www.x.org) innovations with OpenGL, composite,
etc.  Am I the only one who wonders about this?  First of all
Longhorn is not even out yet, so I fail to see how X.org (http://www.x.org) has to catch
up with it.

Secondly, Mac OS X definitely has some eye candy that X desktops did
not have in the past, but the Mac desktop is still not free and not
customization-friendly. 

Finally, I have proven that this technology is here and now for
X.  Although some naysayers have described the xcomposite features
of X.org (http://www.x.org) to be buggy and unstable KDE (http://www.kde.org) 3.4 has done away with those
concerns.  Please see my screenshots (../../../content/view/92/1/) for confirmation.  Since I downloaded KDE (http://www.kde.org) 3.4, X has been stable.

I have been able to watch videos and play video games.  I have the
latest Nvidia driver (don't try it wit ATI — not X.org (http://www.x.org)'s fault. 
ATI seems not to be committed to Linux (http://www.linux.org) the way Nvidia is).  No, my
desktop is not exactly like OS X.  That's the point.  I don't
like everything on OS X.  It's the freedom of choice that matters.

I think it's time Mac and Windows catch up to X and release the source code for their desktops.

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