10,000 bugs away from world domination

[David Gerard]

One from 2006, but of interest:

http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=24

"I am an ex-Microsoft programmer of 10 years who hadn’t spent 10
minutes with any Open Source code till I left Microsoft–which is
actually very typical for MS employees.

"After leaving 1 year ago and spending it with Linux (most of that
time with Ubuntu) I’ve gained tremendous respect for the Open Source
world as a whole but more than that, had an epiphany that Linux on the
desktop is 99.999% ready to go. Linux is lean, stable, polished and
extremely rich. All of the pieces needed for world domination on the
desktop are there. If every Microsoft employee installed Linux, the
attrition rate would double–which would be considered a catastrophe.
If Bill Gates were to install Linux, he’d hire someone to smash one of
his plasma TVs."


- d.