Linux = Too Many Busted Toilets and Nobody To Fix Them.

Quote:

Linux didn't gain when Vista was released and people HATED Vista, they
just went back to XP. This time MSFT is already doing damage control by
having raised the support cycle of Win 7 to 2020 for ALL versions and I
have no doubt the very second an OEM balks they will be given downgrade
rights, if they aren't all given downgrade rights at release time. MSFT
learned with netbooks better to have them using your older cheaper OS
than not using your product at all, and within 5 months Windows went
from nothing to 90% on netbooks.

For Linux to actually have a shot at the masses then "free as in beer"
simply has to die because linux has a serious "busted toilets" problem
that the GPL just can't fix. you see to be a truly world class OS, one
that can stand head to head with Windows and OSX, then there are a TON
of really nasty thankless jobs that have to be done. most of the docs
have to be thrown out and rewritten because as it is now you have a list
of CLI commands with ZERO explanation if you are lucky, if not you have
a "to do" placeholder. QA, regression testing, replacing the driver
model so that what works in ubuntu Leapin Lizard doesn't puke and die in
ubuntu Maniac Monkey, etc.

What nobody in the FOSS world seems to understand is human nature. Ask
someone to write you a song, paint you a picture? You can get someone to
do that for free because humans like to create, its enjoyable to us. now
ask them to come clean that nasty overflowing toilet and watch as the
job don't get done. When it comes to building an OS for every fun job
you have 1000 that are about as pleasant as being the guy that cleans
the puke at the Chuck E Cheese. Apple and MSFT pay hundreds of millions
to get the toilets fixed, FOSS pays nothing so the toilets simply never
get repaired, its just human nature.

Quote

http://www.osnews.com/comments/25757