Carl Franklin

Carl,

Just listened to the NYC show.
That rant was hilarious!
It sounded like the same guy from the Crashing Mac rant.

Keep rocking.

Jim

Loved the shot of Richard talking toys. He looks as if he's having entirely too much fun

No, that rant was just a waaaaaaay-too frustrated Linux user.

I actually really used to like Linux (a lot) -- right up until we had to start supporting it in a widely-distributed production environment where we didn't want to have to change our environment just because someone somewhere decided to move things around or drop support for something because ... uh, I guess they just lost interested. Or they upgraded their own hardware or software so the old drivers or old files meant nothing to them anymore. (Or is there really a secret contest among the Linux developers to see who can break more applications with each new upgrade?)

Once we finally move completely off this platform I'll be able to start blogging about all our "experiences"; unfortunately, until then, I can't. But the stories I can tell! (Pulled out all my d*mn hair over this stuff, so I have to at least make up for that!)

One thing we finally realized about Linux though: we're not big enough to be a great Linux shop, but we're big enough that we no longer need to try to be.

- Bill