jimmyjames

All of which you can do with PowerPoint. The article is more against bullet point presentations than PowerPoint.

Mc Nealy banned all Microsoft products at Sun, period. It was much more of an emotional decision than a rational one, and all it did was force thousands of employees to go through bureaucratic hell to receive exemptions just so they could get their work done. Yes, I was there, and it was one of Mc Nealy's comically horrible decisions as a CEO (he made many more).

And then, the next step was trying to find a Windows machine... Some employees sometimes had to go to a different building just to fill expense reports.

Good times.

One-liners should be avoided at all costs.

Yet another article saying "Powerpoint sucks" without offering any alternatives.

Well, that's one way of getting porn on the iPhone.

You think he's not finding a woman because he's not famous in a way that's attractive to women?

Hilarious.

How about this: he has a very arrogant personality, the ego the size of a blimp and it's just impossible to have a conversation with him unless you agree with every single word he says.

I think that a great free open source leader has already been born but he committed suicide, so instead, now we have Stallman.

I agree with that last point, I have a few friends doing consulting for RoR and they don't seem to have any problems finding work, but then again, neither do COBOL developers.

RoR developers are as hard to find as RoR jobs, so I stand by my initial claim that RoR has become a niche framework.

<shrug>

Feel free to use whatever metric makes you feel good, all I'm saying is that the number of jobs for Java, PHP, Javascript and ASP.net (yes, even Basic) absolutely dwarfs those for Ruby on Rails.

Rails has been "exploding" for years now, but it's still absolutely nowhere to be found in most job boards, so for all intents and purposes, it is a niche.

I'm glad to see it grow because it contains a lot of very interesting ideas, but at this point, it's pretty clear that it will never become as popular as other "web frameworks" (using the term loosely here) such as PHP, ASP.net or some of the many Java frameworks...

1) Please don't swear, it makes you look like an angry teenager and it doesn't help your message. 2) The fact that Rails has 900 bugs is appalling, but don't blame it on the community, blame it on the team working on it 3) The Rails core team is working on it because they wanted to scratch an itch, who are you to tell me what itch I should be scratching? 4) I'm getting tired of the arrogance displayed by Rails people (core team and community alike). We understand you had a shot at becoming the Next Big Thing a few years ago. It never happened, you're now reduced to a niche and you're trying to blame it on others with this kind of pathetic call to action.

The world has moved on from Rails, enjoy your niche and stop trying to get others to fix your mess (900 tickets... seriously?!?).

The FSF: sinking into irrelevance, one press release at a time.