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Linux in 2004?

Posted by michael on from the vote-tux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "John Terpstra and Eric S. Raymond have started the ball rolling on LinuxWorld's poll of the community for what they think will happen in the world of Linux in 2004. Terpstra says 'I predict that during 2004 at least one significant USA government body will adopt Linux on the desktop.'" Depending on how you define "significant", this has already occurred.

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  1. Re:Amazing coincidences! by geoswan · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The original version of these amazing coincidences was published in Scientific American. American educator Martin Gardner used to use his fictional alter ego, "Dr Joshua Irving Matrix", the World's Greatest Living Numerologist to poke fun at the credulous. In the quarter century that Gardner ran a Mathematical Games column in Scientific American he devoted each April column to a tongue in cheek report on some topic from the fringe of reason. Seventeen of those columns involved an interview or letter from his good friend Matrix.

    Gardner's genius deserves more respect than to be misquoted anonymously.