Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists'

AvatarofVirgo wrote in to mention an article running on ZDNet in which the consulting firm The Yankee Group goes after folks in the Linux community who have been questioning their objectivity. From the article: "Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group who has been at the receiving end of much of the criticism from Linux advocates, claimed the radical elements of the community could damage the reputation of open source software."

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Calling her at 11 o'clock at night?

[computational super]

I've had these nut jobs calling me at 11 o'clock at night

Sorry, I didn't realize that upset you. I'll work harder to call later, when you couldn't be expecting any other important calls. How about 2 AM? What's her phone number again?

Hmmmm, well

[r00tdenied]

DiDiot, would you prefer if I called at 2am? Okay then.

Re:true

[CodeBuster]

I have used Visual Studio in my development work for the past five years on various projects small and large including thick clients, web services, database projects, and web applications. The Visual Studio interface is intuitive (from a developer's perspective anyway), the workspaces are well organized, and the overall quality of the development environment appears to be excellent. I have heard many others say that Visual Studio is the finest development tool currently available. However, I would be interested to know which tools, in your opinion, are better than Visual Studio? Bear in mind that the Visual Studio team at Microsoft includes many of their best and brightest with a multi-million dollar budget. You will forgive me if I am skeptical that any freely available tools could be better.

Laura DiDio can...

[Howard Roark]

...kiss my shiny metal ass!

Reputation? I got your reputation right here, you shill!