I don’t know why Steven has to perpetuate the linux is crappy fud in this article – because that’s all he does. His reasons boil down to “it’s great for geeks but too messy for stupid people and they don’t want to be associated with that”.

The reasons are a lot simpler: Linux is just a kernel, not an operating system, and more importantly from a business perspective, is that they simply don’t own the trademark. They say ubuntu and android as both are their trademark and the marks under which they’re running their commercial operations.

Why are tech journalists so lazy? And plain thick …