Yet Another Misinformed Swipe At Open Source and Linux

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Wow, get a load of Forrester's Mike Gualtieri's rant against Linux: 'Poor Linux...it struggled so hard to dominate the world...It never even came close to Microsoft Windows on the desktop, with less than 2% share of desktops.' Gualtieri goes on to say that no true Linux distribution is a contender on smartphones (although he does recognize that Android is Linux-based). Gualtieri's rant is obviously link bait, and perhaps it's right to say nothing about it, but this statement he makes is truly over the top and calls for reaction: 'Open source never seems to be the innovator. Instead it seems to disrupt pricing power for established technologies.' Geez."

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