I’m unsure whether this is FUD or not; I found it while trying to track down the Glyn Moody article for my previous entry.
It’s certainly jolly good fun. It involves corporate bleating from Red Hat, yet another spurious “Doctor” (Paul M.A. Baker, Director of Research for the Center for Advanced Communications Policy at the otherwise estimable Georgia Tech), and the following inscrutable quote:
The message of the benefits and value open source delivers is resonating across the globe and there are several geographies that present a great opportunity for open source adoption.
Well, I’m fully attuned to the resonating message, of course. But will it run my Blu-Ray?
For those adventurous souls looking to work in IT across the globe, the most important part may be the accompanying map.
The Republic of Yemen needs encouragement, I fear. I hear it’s very nice this time of year, if you enjoy sandstorms and getting your head sawn off by tribes of maniacs who have been indoctrinated by a messianic cult.
Which brings us nicely back to Linux FUD ...
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Notice that they didn’t supply any numbers or scale for determining what the colors actually mean, making the map completely useless.
Not quite true, as I remember from my “Teach Yourself Statistics” book.
I’ll grant you that there’s no possible way of determining a correlation, and I’ll doubt you can do a Wilcox rank sum test, and even spectrum analysis might be a little hard, and there’s an awful lot of white space that means they have no clue whatsoever, and there’s no apparatus to back up their claims or stuff, but even so …
What are you complaining about? This is (almost) a billion dollar company here! I’m sure their institutional shareholders can interpret this excellent information correctly.
Hell, it’s just a ranking. It’s the simplest form of statistical analysis.
Why would you need extra information, like sales and profit and population and number of desktops per and stuff?
I wonder what kind of “open source happening” the ranking scale is based on, and how one is supposed to quantify it.
Oh, wait – LinuxRunsOnTurtles™! Never mind that.
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