In Every Cloud, There Is A Silber Lining

You might want to read this one on Safari, because the font is so horrible that it reminds me of nothing less than bashing stuff out on an IBM Selectric. But anyway.

Short and sweet:

Historically we have had three business units geared to match the customers and established ecosystems which Canonical, as a start up, needed to penetrate:

Promising. We’re looking at things objectively here, not as a Shuttlecock plaything. We’re considering customers.

enterprises who want services in support of Ubuntu deployments (Corporate Services)

Well, as a start-up, there are no such enterprises. Perhaps you meant “enterprises who want to get something useful done at a very good price?”

industry players who want to deploy and distribute Ubuntu on their machines (OEM Services)

Well, as a start-up, there are no such industry players. Perhaps you meant “industry players who see value in deploying and distributing Ubuntu on their machines?”

and end users who want web-based content and services on top of the free platform (Online Services).[1]

Well, as a start-up, there are no such end users. Perhaps you meant … hang on, Canonical doesn’t provide web-based content and services. What do you mean?

It’s rather sad that the FOSS religion actually seems to encourage nitwit sinkhole companies to hire dribbling imbeciles with MBAs like this as their CEO. (Though, to be fair, Apple hired John Sculley and HP hired Carly Fiorucca.)

It also suggests that Canonical is even more doomed than it would otherwise appear to be.

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[1] No business division for the Desktop.

Comments on that left as an exercise for the reader.