There is no doubt the guy is a genious when it comes to writing style, but he is not a genious when it comes to doing his research. As many of the commentors pointed out that not only his premise was flawed from the get go, but so was his thesis. His logic provided nothing intelligent, except for the fact the Linux community is very passionate and at times very strong when backed into a corner, as he did with his writings.

I actually still get the InfoWorld magazine, even after I told them to stop sending it to me. All I see are major Microsoft advertisements (full-page or more), and not one Linux advertisement. This last issue though did have a Linux article in it, and for some reason, the Tux on the cover looked pissed, but I would too if they wrote about me the way they do

We were a little aggressive, I will give him that. But anyone who is passionate about something and has a deep love and appreciate for something, and then someone comes through and bashes the hell out of it, will cause almost anyone to get a little aggressive only because it really irritates them. I don’t use Ubuntu, and I don’t prefer Gnome, however the way he did his FUD slinging, joke or no joke, is what irritated me the most.

I just don’t get how someone can post garbage like that, even if it was planned to do it the way it was, which I am sure it was. It is so unprofessional, and I will admit I have bashed stuff in the paste (ie. Microsoft), and after I did it, I felt bad because I through all of the professionalism I had out the window.

Ya, I don’t think he could redeem himself. Even reversing it and bashing Windows wouldn’t do it for me. You know, the first time I read his Part 1, I knew it had to be a joke. Who in their right minds compares Explorers really stupid stacking feature anyways? That stacking feature is annoying.

I will go through the last article and look for your comments. There were some really great comments. Granted quite a few of us were really upset, but there were quite a few people who also stayed level headed, which I wish I could do all of the time. Thanks for the heads up and the comment TG!

You should read the epilogue, he claims to have exposed us all as aggressive fanbois living in our parents’ basement.

He is getting dragged through the thorn bushes by the readers, even on his last article. I love the comments on that one much better than all the others. His social experiment and the plot twist at the end is nothing but a continuation of his slander against the Ubuntu community.

He hasn’t redeemed himself in my eyes, he’s just dug himself deeper into his hole.

Hopefully my two comments on the last article will have cleared the filter soon.

@ blackbelt_jones: I am with you. Plus you had some of the greatest comments on the posts. Constantly had me laughing.

No matter how the ending happened, Randall and InfoWorld are the ones who need to grow up, or “mature” as Randall put it in the last post. That was something a kid does, string you along with lies for a couple of days and then says “haha I was just joking.” The only thing InfoWorld did was succeed in their hits, but guess what? all of the Linux people who commented probably had their AdBlockers running and more than likely didn’t click on one advertisement. Last I checked, it isn’t the hits that count, unless of course you are trying to sell more advertisement, which they very well could, but it is the clicks that count.

I don’t think what he started will hurt the community, because you know what, everyone stood up to the tyrant calling him out. Imagine if we all just laid down and took the abuse, especially coming from a Microsoft person, we would have been labeled either lame or weak. Oh well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. He tried to bruise us, and I still don’t believe him yet. At least at the end he admitted by saying he is finally going to install Ubuntu. I wonder how long before he starts a “Windows Vista (Still) Sucks” post, we know an OS X post is coming.