Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin

jbrodkin writes "Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. With the one glaring exception of the desktop computer, Linux has outpaced Microsoft in nearly every market, including server-side computing and mobile, Zemlin claims. 'I think we just don't care that much [about Microsoft] anymore,' Zemlin said. 'They used to be our big rival, but now it's kind of like kicking a puppy.' From Android and the Amazon Kindle to embedded devices, consumer electronics and the world's largest websites and supercomputers, 'Linux has come to dominate almost every category of computing, with the exception of the desktop,' Zemlin argues as Linux approaches its 20th anniversary."

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the myth of enterprise's making logical decisions

[decora]

enterprises make a large number of high level decisions based on politics and kickbacks. people like to pretend that businesses run efficiently and make extensive costs analysis and blah blah blah ROI whatever. a large percentage of that stuff is crap that people do for reasons of inertia, politics, or 99 other types of corporate bullshit.

the higher up a decision is on the organization chart, the more likely it is to be influenced by who is fucking who, who made a snide comment at the other guys birthday party, who has better hair at the annual retreat, etc etc etc etc. the ROI and numbers are just piles of shit to cover that up, sort of like annual reports and SEC filings that were produced by Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers before they both ate shit and died.

and why do people believe this trash? because it is too painful to deal with reality; that the guy driving the maserati who walks past you like you're a fucking peasant even though you've been at the company 25 years, makes decisions that affect tens of thousands of people based on how much cocaine he snorted last night and whether his prostitute was able to pretend that his impotence was somehow attractive.

Re:Bashing MS Like Pulling a Sleeping Tiger's Tail

[Alex Belits]

We are so happy, you are retired, then.

This is how progress works, you moron! Supporters of crap don't become convinced that it's crap, they just die out.