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More Linux Predictions for 2004

Posted by michael on from the story-so-nice-we-ran-it-twice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Experts, shmexperts - it's time for the Linux community's own predictions, felt the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine. Prognostications in their Jan 2004 round-up cover media players ('turning your phone into an iPod will be hot by the end of 2004'), IPOs ('Of course, LinuxCertified, Inc'), and MS ('Microsoft will start an intensive campaign to promote their Longhorn technology as Linux standards compliant') - that last is one from Samba's John Terpstra." The original story was back in November.

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  1. Torvalds will be... by EduardoFonseca · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... hired by Microsoft. RMS and ESR will join the SCO legal team. Bill Gates will get even fatter. Steve Ballmer will resign from MS and join some wicked monkey-dance group.

    slashdot.org will be bought by Fox News. CowboyNeal will become a Fox News Anchor.

    The world will collapse.

  2. Perhaps... by Oen_Seneg · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Steve Ballmer gets drunk and decides to open source all of Microsoft's products.

  3. Re:Slackware is almost where it's at... by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I tried fedora I was pleasantly surprised. Nobody came to my door to rape my cat and beat my wife or anything.

    Are you sure you installed it correctly?