Microsoft Advised To Learn To Love Linux

mikael writes "ZDnet is reporting that the management guru Clayton Christensen (author of "The Innovator's Dilemma") has advised Microsoft to learn to love Linux. In particular he advises Microsoft to purchase "Research in Motion", otherwise they will see their applications sucked off from the desktop and onto handheld devices such as the Blackberry."

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Vocabulary and grammer are not prescriptive

[einhverfr]

Just so you know, competitivity isn't a word. The word you want is competitiveness I think.

What do you mean it isn't a word? "Ain't" is a word in many dialects of English too.... Lets see-- it is a group of letters without whitespace which has a readily understandable meaning....

Here is the thing-- English teachers think that English is like a programming languages, that there are rules which cannot be violated which define the English language-- i.e. that grammer and vocabulary is prescriptive rather than descriptive.

However, any first-year student of linguistics will tell you that natural languages have descriptive syntax and grammer, and that the goal of linguistics as a field is to explore these fields and hence to learn about the origins of a natural language.

As Calvin said (from Calvin and Hobbes) "Verbing weirds language" ;-)