Codeweavers to overtake Microsoft by 2018

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62 points·vaksel··12 comments

It's a great joke, and a great piece of PR.

Awesome joke. Reminds me of my (actual) business plan projections which extrapolated will allow me to repay the entirety of US debt to china in 15 years time.

http://xkcd.com/605/

Beat me to it.

Hilarious. Especially the graph.

LOL, these guys always crack me up.

I calculate this differently. Instead of extrapolating the 17% decline year over year I extrapolate the negative growth in revenue in dollars. A straight line drops much quicker.

By this projection I can arrive at the conclusion that whatever I happen to be doing in 2012 my company will overtake Microsoft since their operating revenue will be negative.

Okay, I get it, it's funny... but seriously?

You're a company whose business model depends almost entirely on Microsoft being around to write its software so your software can run it on other OSes. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

No, Microsoft has already written the software. Today we mostly depend on Microsoft not rewriting the software too badly (and we may not be in luck).

Is this a joke? Please tell me it's a joke.

Oh come on guys, it's obviously tongue in cheek. A very clever press release that shows the founders have a great sense of humor. I'm checking out their product.

Of course it is. Reading past the first paragraph or looking at the graph for 10 seconds will reveal that. "Projected Nonsense Data" ... come on :)

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