Well, I never implied that, but what I did state was that Linux had a chance to gain greater adoption last year, but that I don’t believe it will happen because there is no cheerleader in the Linux corner as much as the one in the Windows corner. Primarily consumers who pay the crazy amounts of money we do for Windows. Frankly, I don’t like having 5 different flavors of an operating system when they all do the same thing, with one additional program added, such as networking ability, or displaying a picture (Media Center), and so on. Very frustrating.
Now, fame and fortune may not be what Canonical seeks… at least, not in the sense that most people read those terms. Fame and Fortune imply monetary gains, and that they are motivation for action alone. But Canonical does sponsor Ubuntu for one particular purpose… “to be the most widely used Linux system” and to be “a global open source software ecosystem.” Not seeking fame and fortune as a means to generate money, but definately to be the most widely used Linux system, you do aspire for fame. And you’d be famous.
That is a great ambition, one that I hope becomes true, because I really do like Ubuntu and I’ll never delete my WUBI installation as long as it keeps getting patched with each new Ubuntu distro. I’m not a great cheerleader for Ubuntu or Linux because I account for the good and the bad, and with Ubuntu, I can’t get everything I want done… and inevitably, I have to return to an OS that costs upwards of 50% of the cost of the hardware. And that is not something to cheer about. Thanks for the comment CaptaiNK, I didn’t publish it because I wanted to give it more space to address the real issue beyond the snarky comment at the end of it, so here you are.