Star It's Time to Retire 'Ready for the Desktop'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 16:20 UTC
Linux It's one of those catch phrases that never really seems to die out. Wherever you look in the operating systems world, at personal blogs written in crummy English, or at high-profile quality websites, there is bound to be someone, somewhere who used it. Even I, myself, used it in articles in a far and distant past, and I'm not particularly proud of it. "Ready for the desktop" is no longer acceptable - in fact, it's on its way out.
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RE: A great many OS are 'ready'
by RIchard James13 on Wed 21st May 2008 07:01 UTC in reply to "A great many OS are 'ready'"
RIchard James13
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We make fun of him for it, but Steve Ballmer hit it right on the head with "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers" - and normal people do not have the time to sit down and learn the inner workings of the kernel, multiple toolkits that may or may not work across distros, the *nix command line, how to make a 'make' file, library headers, and a bunch of other esoteric nonsense JUST to churn out a quick in-house crapplet that takes five minutes to slap together in VB or VC#.


Ironically it seems you have picked up on Microsoft's greatest failure as some sort of failure of F/OSS. Why do you think Ballmer was screaming Developers? Why did he throw a chair across the room? What was he so upset about?

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