Augury and reading chicken bones for profit... (was Pun-ditry...)

[John Esak]

>
> 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."

Quite a strange explanation for "close-of-business"...

>
> If some combination of OS/X and Linux/BSD make it to 50% unit market
> share by my deadline, I will consider myself to have been correct.

Well, even _that_ will never happen by close of 2005... as for the whole
concept of what you first stated that I took the $10k issue with... it
sounds like severe, unrestrained back-peddling to me. You would beat Lance
Armstrong to the finish line this way and you'd be facing in the wrong
direction the whole time. :-)


> You may not.

Ya' think not??  :-)

>
> Given those clarified parameters, is the check still on the table?  ;-)

Sorry, I thought you meant what you were saying originally... with "words"
that is... "close of business", not gabblings about some other market share
nonsense. I'd raise either the $10k or the time limit on your first
statement, though.... But, you aren't giving me any incentive.  The new
stuff you are adding is uninteresting to me.

When and if Linux systems ever write strong enough underpinnings and
foundations for their software that such as screen readers could work...
maybe then I'll start looking more closely at it. On the whole, I still view
Linux as a toy for developers and a hell of an OS for small control system
chips.

JE