Linux, This is Why You Fail: Longer than 140 #1

In this inaugural Longer than 140 post, I’d like to call attention to an article that I read at MacWorld just a few minutes ago. I was happily reading along, nodding my head at all the appropriate points, when I came across the following:

The Linux camp will give it another go with a Linux variant called Moblin that has the backing of Intel and is headed for netbooks soon.

Longer than 140: To paraphrase Master Yoda, “This is why you fail”. You give your variants ridiculous names that no average computer user takes seriously. Moblin? Seriously? You think that an OS that sounds like a character from The Lord of the Rings is going to make significant inroads on the desktop? You’re out of your minds.

Longer than 140 is a series of blog entries based on things that I’d ordinarily post to Twitter, but can’t express in 140 characters; they tend to be slightly over the limit. I dislike abbreviation and ctting out chrctrs and avoid it when possible.

Tagged as: linux, macs rule, stupid names for software

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