| Ok...it's more like this. You ACTUALLY build very pretty bridges that average drivers really like. These average drivers like your pretty bridges so much, that you are in very high demand...where the consumer bridge market is concerned. On the other hand, your professional bridge market isn't so hot. In fact, you may have made 80% of all the bridges that the average driver goes over...but you only made ~20% of the bridges that business drivers go over.
On top of that, you do NOT collect tolls (There is NO Microsoft tax) for these bridges...you MERELY sell them. You may have a fscked up volume purchasing program for folks that want lots of bridges, but you do not recieve any payment except for the bridge itself. You do not beat people. You do not rob them. You do not maim or kill them, either. You just happen to make the prettiest, easiest to use bridge around. Doesn't mean it's the all-around-best...but at least people don't have to spend 45 minutes mucking around with a damned rc script to get the bridge to boot properly. At least their bridges have a fscking RELIABLE filesystem, instead of one that keels over as soon as you breathe on it. At least they don't have to be expert programmers to get the bridge to act they want it to. At least there's a phone number for them to call for bridge tech support, instead of a fscking IRC channel full of idiots busy establishing their superiority over each other and crying "RTFM!" at the top of their lungs.
Is that a crime? No, it's good business. Take your Linux and shove it up your ass, you dreamer. And while you're at it, get your head out of the clouds. The easiest to get OS (i.e. it comes with my new Compaq from Sears), the easiest to use OS (i.e. it is, you know, a LITTLE intuitive...the direct opposite of the Unices) and the most supported OS (i.e. 90% of all the latest software runs on THIS particular OS) will ALWAYS be the most popular OS. Once Linux jumps these hurdles (it probably never will, because dickheads like you need to have bigger balls than everybody else...so you make arcane, stupidly implemented interfaces that come fully equipped with a 10-month learning curve) it will be number one.
C'mon you fools. Make a better, more popular OS. I dare you.
I don' think you can. I think you're too busy conjuring up ridiculous, eccentric metaphores for your lack of success in the cutthroat software industry. Quit bitching and do it.
I'd be the first in line to try it out, if it holds up to the consumer market's standards for PC Operating Systems, that is. |
