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Last Word on ADTI Document
kris writes "Linux and Main's Anthony Awtrey put together a very nice analysis of the ADTI "Opening the Open Source Debate" paper before and after the temporary retraction. He came up with some interesting research of just why the paper adressed specific examples such as the FAA and exposes the FUD behind the FUD in the paper."
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The AdTI report qualifies as well written, but the rebuttals to the AdTI report do not. They BOTH make the mistake that continues to negatively impact the arguments of Open Source/ Free Software advocates: childish personal attacks. Continually repeating phrases like (paraphrasing here) "Microsoft, err, AdTI, says" and "worried about losing the Trophy Wife and the vacation home in the Bahamas" are NOT logical arguments for the superiority of open source software, and they make the open source community look bad. Logic alone will not win the day....
So, while the AdTI piece is certainly poorly researched, corporate pandering tripe, it is likely to have a much MUCH larger impact on policy makers than any rebuttal, not BECAUSE of its accuracy, but because of its tone. Open Source gets bitten by this all the time, and the advocates don't seem to be learning.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
On the software side, Windows programs are so desperate for your attention that they hijack every possible function (Quicktime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player all want to play your MP3s, your movies, read your email, etc). Linux on 'commodity hardware' is displacing much better server OS's such as HP-UX and Solaris.
PCs today are so indistinguishable that big box makers like Compaq and Dell have to trap you into tying contracts (buy a Dell, get Dellnet for two years) in order to make money.
And this is a good thing somehow? Keep your reverse engineering to yourself, or rot in jail.
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Yahoo! News was the first to report that linux is officially dead since Linus has quit.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered A*TI community when IDC confirmed that the A*TI market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all slashdot readers. Coming on the heels of a recent slashdot post which plainly states that A*TI has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. A*TI is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent A*TI Admin comprehensive trolling test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict A*TI future. The hand writing is on the wall: There may be no future at all for A*TI because A*TI is dying. Things are looking very bad for A*TI . As many of us are already awareA*TI continues to lose market share; red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Anonymous Coward states that there are 7000 users of A*TI How many users of video cards and surveys are there? Let's see. The number of A*TI versus non-A*TI-related posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 35 to 1.
Major marketing surveys show that A*TI has steadily declined in market share. A*TI is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If it is to survive at all it will be among hobbyists and dilettantes. A*TI continues to falter. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all intents and purposes, A*TI is dead.