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    Shuttleworth says Linux can't win....

    Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, has given up on the idea that Linux (which Ubuntu is based on) will ever supplant Windows, saying that if any OS will be the next big thing it's Apple's iOS or Google's Android.
    What happened to Linux

    woodsmoke
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    Some good points in that article.

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      Originally posted by oshunluvr View Post
      Some good points in that article.
      True, but it's still a Dvorak piece. So make of that what you will.
      The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers. -- Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires (now Pope Francis)
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        Originally posted by bsniadajewski View Post
        True, but it's still a Dvorak piece. So make of that what you will.
        Ah yes, John C. Dvorak, the guy who predicted that Apple's iPhone would be a flop, and opined that they should get out of the handset business while the getting was good...

        http://www.marketwatch.com/story/app...-on-the-iphone
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          Originally posted by HalationEffect View Post
          Ah yes, John C. Dvorak
          It's been over a decade since I've read a Dvorak piece. I see he hasn't changed a bit. Some insignificant, inconsequential corner of the universe probably feels minor comfort in that.
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            He's like the exact opposite of Cassandra of Troy (who was gifted with the ability to know the future, but cursed to have nobody believe her).
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              Look guys - I didn't say he was Nostradamus, I just saw a couple salient points. Geeze-Louise!

              Even a broken clock is right twice a day! LOL

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                Well the POINT is what Shuttleworth said....not to be killing the messenger!

                However, since I am older 'n dirt, I remember when Dvorak and "some other guy" were at each other tooth and nail in, I think, PCworld as "battleing talking heads" and they would go at a topic from different sides.

                I mainly remember the HEATED arguments over whether the mouse/GUI would "ever" catch on as opposed to "ctrl-alt-f2-q-z-minus sign". One arguing for and the other against.

                Don't remember which but one of them was wrong (with the exception of the cli people of course! lol ) Maybe, since Dvorak is still around he was the one arguing for GUI. ?

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                  Originally posted by woodsmoke View Post
                  I mainly remember the HEATED arguments over whether the mouse/GUI would "ever" catch on as opposed to "ctrl-alt-f2-q-z-minus sign". One arguing for and the other against.

                  Don't remember which but one of them was wrong (with the exception of the cli people of course! lol ) Maybe, since Dvorak is still around he was the one arguing for GUI. ?
                  http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/01/...john-c-dvorak/
                  The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don't want one of these new fangled devices.
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                    Originally posted by oshunluvr View Post
                    Even a broken clock is right twice a day! LOL
                    So then the clock is two up on John.
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                      Thanks Halation, Infoworld not PCworld.

                      I just wish I could remember his sparring partner's name.

                      woodsmoke
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                        Here's a trip down memory lane! A scan of an infoworld mag from 1984. Dvorak is at the end but not in a debate.

                        And from wikipedia about "the mouse":

                        In 1984 PC columnist John C. Dvorak stated the mouse as a reason the Macintosh would fail.
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