Nobody submitted a nomination for THE WORST OF 2007
I thought we’d see some SCOs, some Microsofts, some Oracles, maybe even an IBM, a Red Hat, a Free Software Foundation, an Apple. Nope.
Not a single nomination in the SD Times’ newest award, THE WORST OF 2007. Lots of clicks on the nomination form, but nobody submitted.
What a disappointment!
Z Trek Copyright (c) Alan Zeichick
Hi Alan. The lack of response may have something to do with the criteria. The submission form states that, to be considered, a company had to do something that “had a *profound* influence on *many* software developers” (emphasis mine). It’s possible that a company or organization did something egregious enough to be considered, but it often takes a long time for such a profound and negative effect to become obvious to everyone — something that economists know all too well 🙂
You would have had more takers if you asked for the worst products of 2007, but I glad you didn’t. It would have been a free-for-all.
You could be right. Maybe we’ll try it again next year, and set the bar lower!
Or would that be “set the bar higher”? I guess that’s the right metaphor.
“Set the bar higher…” Admittedly, it took me a while to get that one. But then I realized that if the 100 best must jump over the bar, then the 100 worst must slip under it. 🙂
Exactly!!!