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I wasn't saying anything wrong with the article. I was saying the community needs to stop acting like the small guy. The Linux server has x percent of the market, which is more than what Microsoft has. But the Linux community still wants to act like the little guy, because they don't know how to be anything else. I am just saying we need to stop these stupid little articles that just reenforce how much Linux people love Linux.

Let's start posting these articles to Neowin or many of the other Windows Centric sites.

Also for all those who accused me of not reading the article, you obviously didn't read what I had to say and really thought about it. If you look at the comments all of them are the normal reteric that comes out of the OSS community. You hate freedom, you don't know what Linux is about, you don't know what you want out of a OS, and blah-blah-blah.

We need to grow up as a community and stop acting so childish. The problem with Linux is there is no corporate mandated focus, and that is part of the problem. In addition there is not marketing of Linux, there is marketing of products built of Linux, but the HP, and IBM name always overshadows the Linux name in the comercial.

My mother actually asked me after she saw the IBM commerical. Who would actually name thier kid Linux. That floored me because what that says to me is that IBM is really only marketing to people that know what Linux is, instead of marketing to people that don't know what Linux is.

These are many of the problems that I have seen, and as a marketing person, I see Linux failing. As a peice of technology Linux is thriving though. That is one of the problems. Microsoft is accelerating in both marketing and the technical aspect. (Listen I don't want any of the normal comments, such as Microsoft doesn't innovate, that is getting old and know body actually beleives it any more, plus that is one of the childish remarks that I talked about above.) Linux needs a marketing campaign that isn't attached to any company, and that is the only way Linux is actually going to succeed.