An interesting read. IMHO This is EXACTLY how the closed source businesses have been viewing Open source ffrom the beginning.

The creepiness comes from the fact that you have a freetard who thinks he knows business.

One thing that has caught my attention is in the “Summary of Software Production Business Methods” section:

Paradigm
Open Source

Efficiency
60% to 100%

LinuxRunsOnTurtles™, anyone?

Actually, that whole table is bullshwt. Apart from percentages pulled out of his ass (though Bruce does “justify” the 5% for retail), and apart from a bunch of headings that bear no relation to his previous “argument,” there’s even a column for Protects Customer Differentiation. Under an earlier heading, “Enabling Technology vs. Business Differentiation,” our man claims that this is a significant benefit of Open Source (based as usual on the unfounded assumption that you get “Enabling Technology” for free, and on the further unfounded assumption that the PHB will spend all this extra money on “Business Differentiation”).

But in the table, what do we see?

Protects Customer Differentiation: In house and contract, yes. Open source, no.

Retail is, funnily enough, a no. It’s a well-known fact that no company in history has ever written their own spreadsheet, or set up templates in Word, or created a mail-merge, or designed their own web site. All these things have to be written from scratch, and without the benefit of retail software, unless you use MagicPixieDust™.

I avoided making specific comments in the body of the post because, frankly, there are just so many cross-correlated vapid inanities that it’s better to read the whole thing and form your own judgement.

My judgement is that this crap is precisely the same consistency of worthless and unfocused management consultant bullshyt that you’d get if you employed, say, McKinseys.

But at least it’s free.

“But, surprisingly, businesses dedicated to selling Open Source software as their main product do not create the majority of Open Source software.”

I think that says it all, really. Who is going to be surprised by this fact?

“Studies by Stanford and CMU researchers show that the Linux 2.6 kernel has 0.17 bugs per 1000 lines of code while non-Open-Source commercial software generally scores 20-30 bugs per 1000 lines.”

That’s the sort of meaningless apples-and-oranges gibberish that just makes my head spin.

This is one of the many reasons I hate the FLOSS leaders. They are absolutely in it for ripping their f**king zombies off with advertising or otherwise or getting them to f**king worship them.