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Cringely's 2004 Predictions

somethinghollow writes "Cringely's 2004 Predictions are out, and he makes a very interesting claim concerning Linux: 'The SCO debacle has created a crisis within the Linux community. They pretend that it hasn't, but it has. This will come to a head in 2004 with either the development of a new organizational structure for Linux or the start of its demise. Linux has to grow or die, and the direction it takes will be determined in 2004.' With a claimed 70% successful prediction rate, you at least have to listen..."

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  1. Re:We must kill every Muslim man, woman, and child by AndreyF · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    hahaha
    a bit off topic, but i'll bite...

    i do hope you are joking...

    if not (as i suspect) you are a sad, sad, person. personally, i have many, many muslim friends. a lot of which would give me the shirt off their backs... as far as murder and genocide, don't tell me that Christians and Jews are better than any other religion...

    do some real research before opening your mouth and don't talk out of your ass...

    damn. people like you just piss me off.

  2. Re:As a member of the Linux community... by Sivaram_Velauthapill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not saying I want to see terrorist attacks. I'm sorry if you misunderstood my post. I'm just saying that is what is going to happen. Do you really think the present US policy is going to prevent terrorism? If anything, they are creating even more in places like Iraq! The US "war" on terrorism is as bogus as the "war" on drugs. In fact they are almost identical and prone to complete failure. Bush might say that he is moving the frontlines on the "war" on terrorism to Iraq but the fact of the matter is, Al-Qaida is nowhere near Iraq. If anything, they are planning the next attack...

    Sivaram Velauthapillai

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  3. Re:We must kill every Muslim man, woman, and child by AndreyF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    actually, there was one very recent case I studied in Sociology about a Jewish father claming to be a "better Jew than Abraham" because he did not stop, as abraham did, to kill his two children after his wife recieved full custody when remarrying a christian...