Yet Another Misinformed Swipe At Open Source and Linux | Linux Today

Yet Another Misinformed Swipe At Open Source and Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 4, 2011

[ 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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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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