Follow-up post to Canonical Microsoft

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 11, 2010

“Oh dear.

“It seems as though I completely failed to make the point I was
trying to make. Sorry.

“With the question “Is Canonical becoming the
new Microsoft?â€, I was trying to ask if the overall
level of “bad-karma†that is being
directed toward Ubuntu/Canonical was potentially making it into the
next entity that the world loves to hate? I
wasn’t (as I did actually try to say)
interested in the individual issues I listed, but the cumulative
level of criticism which, as we all know, Microsoft gets in spades;
even though they still manage to sell $20bn of crap software in a
quarter.”

Once again, some excellent comments– ed.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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