In a blog post titled What I would do if I was in charge of Windows 8, Novell’s Miguel de Icaza* opines on what he would do if he was in charge of Windows 8.
I’ll wait while guffaws subside… For isn’t this a case of ignoring the log in your eye while looking at the speck in another’s? I.e., sheez, Mike, if you were so with it, why couldn’t you tell your bosses at Novell what they could do to make Netware/SLED/whatever they are pushing so much better, and more successful?
However, I digress….
What made me sit up was this obviously uninformed statement made by Mikey: “….that people are scared of installing software on Windows.”
Jaw agape, I hastened to read the blog post again. However, the misstatement was still there!
How could someone as supposedly intelligent as Mig make such a silly statement?
Let me rattle off some companies that are retail ISVs on Windows: Oracle, Symantec, Adobe, SAP, CA, Autodesk.
It would be fair to say that virtually all of these companies produce revenues that are a multiple of those of Miguel’s parent company.
So it begs the question: if people are so afraid of installing apps on Windows, how come these companies are so successful?
Yet, in some absolutely retarded fashion, he decides to take freetard myths, and attempts to pass it off as the truth, no doubt pleasing the imbeciles among his followers.
Hopefully, someone in his circle would decide to take pity on him, and tell him the truth before he exits his RDF and makes a mockery of himself by regurgitating this nonsense in polite company.
UPDATE: Frank Owen, a co-founder of TechVirtuoso, tweeted this great observation on this issue:
“I think that is the problem for most Windows users, they will install ANYTHING! Especially if it comes in the form of a popup.” Frank Owen, @fowen, via Twitter
Original story at NetworkWorld
*By all indications, Miguel de Icaza is someone of some import among open source types. He seems well regarded amongst his own kind.
