Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux

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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This is it.

[Compact Dick]

printf("Goodbye, cruel world!")

Re:SUN

[Anonymous Coward]

But SUN machines look cool. I especially like the mousepads that come with them. Really, Sun makes the best mousepads I've ever used, no questions asked.

And besides: If you grok Sun, the lesser Linux geeks in the company will PhEar you.

Terror alerts == neocon's powerplay

[Anonymous Coward]

How do you know there were any terror attempts?

I say these on-and-off terror alerts are just a way how the neocons keep control over the public and politicians who might otherwise resist their agenda.

Once you have a scared public, you can strip them of every civil right and they'll thank you for it.