Punditry, and how to make it pay :-) (was Re: moving from Sco to Linux)

[William Randall]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: Punditry,and how to make it pay :-) (was Re: moving from Sco to
Linux)


> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:44:45PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> > Subject: RE: moving from Sco to Linux
> > > Because SCO is now a litigation company, not a software company?
> > > I've added SCO to my close-of-business 2005 list.  Along with
Microsoft.
> >
> >
> > If Microsoft goes out of business in 2005, I will write you a check for
> > $10,000 and bring it to you personally wherever you live. This is among
the
> > most... outlandish... things you have proposed... Perhaps, you think
Exxon
> > and GM will be leaving us shortly, also? :-) I've got more checks.
>
> The exact, full prediction, which I've posted on my website several
> times since 1999 is: "by close-of-business 2005, either Microsoft won't
> be in anything like the same business they're in now, or they won't be
> in business at all."
>
> By "anything like", (hopefully) clearly, I mean "operating system
> effective monopoly with a ridealong almost-monopoly market share in
> office and browser software".  For my purposes, the measurable item is
> unit shipments of software, since, clearly, they get an unfair
> advantage over F/OSS if you measure it in terms of money.
>

I just recently installed Sun's OpenOffice and am very happy to be out from
the overhead of MS Office.  All my existing documents and spreadsheets
appear to work flawlessly.

Bill