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Ever the curmudgeon, Dvorak opines that the PC revolution was a fad and that users really like cloud computing. Mind you he was commenting on Mark Shuttleworth's pronouncement last week that desktop Linux will never supplant Windows and we might as well offer no more resistance to iOS and Android because that's where the desktop is supposedly headed. So, is Dvorak right that the biggest problem with Linux is that Linux users are lousy marketers we didn't pay enough attention to promoting Linux with splashy ads? Well, there's two problems with that argument from my perspective: 1) it's not the job of Linux users to be marketers, and 2) RedHat and Novell should take the blame for not doing the marketing. On the first group, I can only speak for myself, but I have only so many hours in the day to evangelize Linux on the desktop. On the second group, they neglected the desktop because they were so focused on the server room and large enterprises. Shuttleworth throwing in the towel only highlights the fact that one billionaire alone cannot hope to take on Microsoft because Redmond was too entrenched. It would have required the combined efforts of RedHat and Novell and Novell was castrated because of its deal with Microsoft back in 2006. Linux as a brand couldn't compete against Windows because there was no consensus on how to wage the battle to win the war.