If it can be shown that they were deliberately (or even: carelessly) misleading people about their intentions, wouldn't this be a case of estoppel, preventing them to pursue any such legal action?
There is crapware written for any OS, and since Linux is trying so hard to get mainstream desktop acceptance, Linux crapware is particularly frustrating on many levels.
It's particularly frustrating, if at the same time the company does a halfway decent job with their Windows offering. Take Realtek for example: the bundled Windows drivers with their Wifi card at least load into Windows, and allow to get on the net.
However, on Linux, it's fumble, dead-air, crash, burn, unless you have the single one kernel that their binary crapware drivers have been written for. And you can't even hope that they'll go Chapter 11 over this incompetence, as, like I said, their Windows drivers are halfway decent:-(
Catering for a marginal market makes it so much easyer to get away with gross incompetence: just blame the customer or the OS platform!
This assumes the customer is rational. And also, that they are deriving a significant portion of their revenue from Linux.
However, both are rarely the case. An irrational customer might blame Linux, rather than the shoddy product. And if the company derives 95% of their revenue from their Windows products anyways, they might not care about losing the other 5%. Or they might "rationalize" that "The Customer" is simply not interested in linux (rather than question themselves about their own product).
[I know this comment was supposed to be a joke, but...]
The main point of the article was not that Linux sucks, but that many companies "do not get it". I.e.
they take any old trash,
port it to Linux,
hope that it sells just by virtue of it running on Linux,
and if it doesn't they go back and wine in their corner about the cheapness of the Linux users (rather than looking at their own mistakes).
===> it's almost as if they wanted to have their Linux product fail, so that they can go back to Windows, and tell management "see, Linux is not yet ready for prime-time"
Yes, the article stated several times that often free Linux products are better than some of these commercial "Linux" "products". This is hardly a "Linux suxors" message, on the contrary.
Methinks, this is more a case of first drawing a conclusion and then trying to find matching arguments, rather than a case of naive gullibility:
"The measure has been pulled from the agenda, although Norman said the city may still eventually ban foam cups. If you get Styrofoam into the water and it breaks apart, it's virtually impossible to clean up," Norman said.
Wanna bet the assignment to the paralegal was "the campaign contribution of mumble-mumble-large-styrofoam-cup-manufacturer was somewhat lacking. Research the internet and find reasons why should ban styrofoam cups".
Unluckily enough, the paralegal then found the one reason that made everybody laugh...
It's hard to think of loudspeakers creating silence. Sommerfeldt said it would be like placing conventional speakers in an air vacuum, where the speaker cones would vibrate but produce no sound.
Yeah whatever. In this analogy, the speaker would produce no sound, but it would not create any silence (the silence was already there before).
Mr Smart tech reporter: if it's too hard for you to think about loudspeakers creating silence, then please simply don't think about it, rather than spreading non-sense. Leave the thinking to those who don't find it as hard!
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If it can be shown that they were deliberately (or even: carelessly) misleading people about their intentions, wouldn't this be a case of estoppel, preventing them to pursue any such legal action?
Or a few less...
Why?
Err, maybe it was when the biggest terror attack since 11965 days happened...
It's particularly frustrating, if at the same time the company does a halfway decent job with their Windows offering. Take Realtek for example: the bundled Windows drivers with their Wifi card at least load into Windows, and allow to get on the net.
However, on Linux, it's fumble, dead-air, crash, burn, unless you have the single one kernel that their binary crapware drivers have been written for. And you can't even hope that they'll go Chapter 11 over this incompetence, as, like I said, their Windows drivers are halfway decent :-(
Catering for a marginal market makes it so much easyer to get away with gross incompetence: just blame the customer or the OS platform!
However, both are rarely the case. An irrational customer might blame Linux, rather than the shoddy product. And if the company derives 95% of their revenue from their Windows products anyways, they might not care about losing the other 5%. Or they might "rationalize" that "The Customer" is simply not interested in linux (rather than question themselves about their own product).
The main point of the article was not that Linux sucks, but that many companies "do not get it". I.e.
- they take any old trash,
- port it to Linux,
- hope that it sells just by virtue of it running on Linux,
- and if it doesn't they go back and wine in their corner about the cheapness of the Linux users (rather than looking at their own mistakes).
- ===> it's almost as if they wanted to have their Linux product fail, so that they can go back to Windows, and tell management "see, Linux is not yet ready for prime-time"
Yes, the article stated several times that often free Linux products are better than some of these commercial "Linux" "products". This is hardly a "Linux suxors" message, on the contrary.It's not just your keyboard you need to be concerned about. It's also your monitor!
Unluckily enough, the paralegal then found the one reason that made everybody laugh...
Yeah whatever. In this analogy, the speaker would produce no sound, but it would not create any silence (the silence was already there before).
Mr Smart tech reporter: if it's too hard for you to think about loudspeakers creating silence, then please simply don't think about it, rather than spreading non-sense. Leave the thinking to those who don't find it as hard!