Ah, my poor Linux-Fundamentalist Shawn, You remind me of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisting the Iranian elections have been free and clear when there was overwhelming proof to the contrary...Or Comical Ali (Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf) insisting the city of Baghdad is free of foreign troops while a column of coalition tanks rolls through the city...
We are consumer economy--what that means is that regardless of a given brand marketing budget, it is the consumer who ultimately decides if a product succeeds or fails. Consumers were (and are) returning Linux-based Netbooks (for whatever reason). That is a fact. Any manufacturer and/or retailer is in business to make money; so if there is a product the consumer wants, they will offer it. If the issue with Linux on the Netbook was a localized phenomenon (and there was a consumer demand for it), I assure you, other manufactures would step in to fill the void. This has not what happened--in fact, the reverse is true. You can argue all you want, that is your prerogative; but that does not change the fact that Linux had some serious issues capturing the consumers' heart (and wallet). The philosophy that there is nothing wrong with Linux on the desktop (its the rest of the world that's wrong) will be Linux undoing. We have to get our heads out of our collective rears and address these issues. Listen to the consumers and deliver the product they want because whatever we are doing right now, it's not doing the trick. Shawn wrote:
As was mentioned in THAT thread, the lack of Linux availability on netbooks today (via retail chains) has nothing to do with usability, and EVERYTHING to do with marketing clout (aka monopoly powers).
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