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
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 07:24, 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.
Give me a break. This guy is on M$ payroll. What do you expect him to say! -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998
Just remember he is the same guy that predicted that OS/2 will take over the world... Avi On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 06:24 America/Chicago, 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 -- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com
* Sharpe, Richard (rsharpe@amherst1.com) [030604 04:26]: ->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 I read this lastnight and EVERY talkback. Dvorak even commented on several of the user comments. He actually said in one of his talkbacks that Microsoft has never said anything bad about the GPL, so his opinion is pretty much null in my book and it has been for quite sometime. I'd have to admit that I was in his corner when he was an OS/2 advocate but in the years since..he's just become a Microsoft FUDster..nothing more. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
This mother!@#$er forgot to put this in his pridicaments VERSION E: SCO loses its case against IBM and goes bankrupt. SCO stockholders are pulling their hair and suing SCO executives. SCO executives hung themselves by their balls. Linux community celebrates its victory. Microsoft is losing its grip on a desktop market. Dvorak shortly dies as well, I hope painfully. Alex -------------------
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
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SCO loses its case against IBM and goes bankrupt. SCO stockholders are pulling their hair and suing SCO executives. SCO executives hung themselves by their balls.
This is at the heart of this as far as I'm concerned. SCO was slowly going down the tubes the last couple of years. With the adoption of Linux over Unix and the inablitity of SCO to capitalize in the Linux market it was (is) apparent that SCO was one of the weakest providers in this market space. They sold of key components of their wares for no other reason than to return capitlal to their investors. That done they still had a limp and ineffective market plan and no real growth prospects for their remaining product and service lines. Furthermore, as part of any prudent market statements (e.g. Q10 reports) most companies identify risks for no other reason than to protect the execs and the board from torts and claims of misfeasance (poor management) from their shareholders from accusation of "non-disclosure" of any said potential risk that may come to fruitition. In otherwords, SCO was sinking, probably has been hyping it's share holders and constituencies on the hopes of turning around their failing business. When it became evident this wasn't likely McBride and company went for the all too obvious route of using the the courts, torts, and claims of contract and/or patent violations to inject more money into to the shareholders earnings column. This is at the bottom line, at least in my eyes. They are doing a fairly good job of deflecting and distracting the market from this by redirecting everyones attention to the contrived controversy in order to obfiscate the light of day from the real controversy... That being SCO was headed for insolvency and management is desperate to avoid taking responsiblity for driving the business into the ground and finding themselves in court at the wrong end of a shareholder lawsuit. Cheers, Curtis.
-----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-----
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