The latest CEO berk: Netgear’s Patrick Lo. According to Smarthouse, he invited all of six journos to what appears to be a sad little rant about Apple and Microsoft.

In case you’re wondering, Lo:

• had no answers why Apple was more successful than Negear (and so he can’t really have thought about it all that much);
• said Apple’s ‘closed model’ only works because Apple “owns the market” for things like MP3 players;
• claimed Jobs versus Flash is all about ego;
• whined that “Steve Jobs doesn’t give me a minute,” to relay his concerns about Apple’s business practices. (Gosh, I wonder why.)

Still, the Smarthouse article reports that Lo’s criticism of Microsoft was rather more brief, saying “Microsoft is over—game over—from my point of view”. I’m sure Ballmer and co. will agree, with Microsoft’s tiny $6.66 billion Q1 profit versus Netgear’s most recently revealed quarter: $13.1 million. Still, I’m sure that was a blip and I look forward to Netgear’s February 8 announcement where it’s overtaken Microsoft.