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Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux

Posted by simoniker on from the crystal-ball's-warranty-void dept.

LinuxThis writes "Everyone's favorite, Daniel Lyons and other Forbes journalists have made some bold predictions about IT in 2004. Interesting quotes include 'Microsoft warms up to open source, and tries to make a buck off it', and the best, from our main man Daniel Lyons himself: 'The end of 'free'. Free didn't work for dotcom pet food stores, yet much of the rhetoric around technologies like Linux and voiceover-IP still involves this crazy notion that companies can make money by giving things away. They can't.' Even better, he suggests: 'SCO Group will settle its lawsuit against IBM. Both sides will declare victory. The Linux community will turn on IBM.' This is interesting considering his previous observations about OSS.."

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  1. End of free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the end of free was coming when the tech market crashed.

    Why won't free just end once and for all so these stupid researchers will stop with these inane predictions?

  2. Microsoft warms up to open source. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that what they call a blow torch being applied to the Belly of the Beast these days?

  3. Re:Woah, hold on a minute there... by JarekC · · Score: 2, Funny
    To quote bill gates: "To all those open source types who came down here looking for my code, I have only five words for you: From my cold, dead CVS."

    I think if Bill Gates was to say it, it would rather be "From my cold, dead Visual SourceSafe".

  4. I too have a prediction for 2004 by theolein · · Score: 4, Funny

    I predict that Daniel Lyons will, after continuously having made completely false analysis and predictions on everything from SCO to Linux, either lose his job at Forbes (watch that MBA smile dissappear in a split second when he gets the slip) or be moved to the comics section, where he will at least do somethiing productive at Forbes.

    I see this guy (and most other so called tech analysts for that matter) as one of the worst things to ever happen to both markets and journalism. This is one of those people who were still pushing the dotbomb revolution when it had already collapsed, and then, in true two faced lying son of a bitch sell your soul marketing fashion, turn around and say they had seen it all coming and that people are dumb for not having listened to him.

    I think that the best remedy for scum like this would be to actually give them the job of ceo of some tech company and see how long it takes them to run it into the ground.