-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 June 2003 06:24, Sharpe, Richard wrote:
Gloom and doom from Ziff-Davis, I hope this guy is not right.
Dvorak Predicts Death of Linux
The open-source community might be laughing it off, but this SCO -- IBM lawsuit is going to cause big problems. He anticipates everything from Linux dying slowly to a situation where IBM ends up with sole rights to key pieces of Linux. Don't miss his analysis, including a timeline of events and four possible outcomes.
Linux May Die: http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-18-1-1-2642-502-1
John C. Dvorak is an intelligent person. I've found that he is *usually* for the underdog (in this case Linux). I think what he's trying to do here, is get the Linux community a little more 'fired up' so thatmore of the people in it with *real* knowledge of what is/was/may be, will start to actually try and *do* something, other than just post comments all over the web. I know too, that he's often wrong in his 'predictions', and a good deal of the time he may not have all the information about a 'going on' that is out there on the web. In this article, it seems he has missed out on a few things, and because of that, his 'prediction' could be completely reversed if he knew more than only what he's seen or read *so far*. Lastly, we need to remember...it's just a 'prediction' by one man. He's no psychic (IMO there's no such thing), he's human (which means he can miss as much about something as anyone else), and 'in his way' he's trying to help by, as I said earlier, firing up those with the *real* know-how and knowledge to get up and take action...not voice opinions in NG's, news-lists, website forums, etc. I don't know personally 'what' these knowledgeable people can do, but hopefully *because* they're so much more intelligent than me, they'll be able to figure out what else to do than just 'chat' about it. John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3iyzH5oDXyLKXKQRAgbUAKCdXXYliKlhH8yYPmMfTtaNHDKraQCggVKC YfFfce5GN2IBbxU8xsB6Mgw= =4fUU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----