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Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet)
Here is a bizarre 2008
prediction posted by "Paul Murphy" at ZDNet. "At the top of the
list of continuations is SCO. No matter how the legal action pans out, it
will continue to dominate direction setting in the Linux community - and
until or unless IBM gets its collective head straight on the issue and
cleans house, the polarization this case has led to will continue to
undermine Linux legitimacy." LWN's 2008 predictions - to be posted
soon - do not mention SCO at all; one wonders if there is anybody else on
the planet who thinks this way.
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Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Dec 31, 2007 19:53 UTC (Mon) by ssharkey (guest, #4451) [Link] I would *LOVE* to know what "Paul Murphy" is smoking -- I want some for myself. That has GOT to be the most bizarre take I have ever seen on the entire SCO disaster... and that is saying something, considering all that has happened in that case.
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Dec 31, 2007 20:10 UTC (Mon) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] There were a lot of sureal bits to that article besides just the SCO thing. My favorite sentence was this one:"Meanwhile, Microsofts inability to transcend simple minded x86 programming will continue to drive wintel back to the gigahertz race while delaying the move to PPC - with HP taking a bigger hit from dollar devaluation than Dell and the acceleration of existing trends to an iPhone/Sun Ray style of computing becoming more and more obvious as Microsofts inertia grinds down its wintel partners." The paragraphs on hiring difficulties in Europe may have been a little unparsable but definitely provide unique insights into nuclear power stations and Parisian riots.
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Dec 31, 2007 21:14 UTC (Mon) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] That's pretty awesome. I can't wait to see if this is finally the year that Microsoft follows Apple in switching away from Apple. Seriously, the guy sounds exactly like a tech version of Jackie Harvey.
love that sentence Posted Jan 1, 2008 3:24 UTC (Tue) by wilreichert (subscriber, #17680) [Link] No matter how many times I read it I still can't quite figure what he's getting at. Awesome. Horray PPC I guess...
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Jan 1, 2008 18:27 UTC (Tue) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link] For even more absurdity, look at Murphy's comments to his own article. He considers IBM the "villain" of the dispute, and further states:In practice none of this would be easy, but the result could be to end this nonsense of Linux not being Unix and, therefore, the increasing bitterness with which people like Torvalds attack both Solaris and the BSDs. That conflict didn't exist prior to the lawsuit and is fundamentally wrong: we're all Unix supporters and the enemy is ignorance (often proxied by MS!), not the other guy's Unix.So the comment thread reads: "IBM bad; escapes on technicality, Linux really is a bicycle that's had illegal code put into it, and Microsoft is making all of us fight, never mind anything else I've written."
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Dec 31, 2007 20:23 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] Perhaps ZDnet would be better off asking the Timecube guy to make predictions?
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Jan 1, 2008 3:13 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] I guess the meat of it is his term "polarization". It seems to me that when a situation is "polarized" you have people on one side, and people on the other. Exactly who is it that is on the SCO side? Even Microsoft, after their $15 million cash injection and Baystar referral has taken to the sidelines over the past few years. The likes of Laura DiDio have renounced SCO. And Maureen O'Gara, her career in ashes, appears on the list of unpaid SCO creditors presented to the bankruptcy court. I doubt she's carrying the SCO banner these days, wherever she is. My prediction for 2008: Paul Murphy will be found to be in the early stages of Alzheimers disease. Or at least his glasses will finally fall off of his nose. ;-)
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Jan 1, 2008 8:03 UTC (Tue) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link] SCO's credibility among the population at large is accurately represented by the year-end closing price for SCOXQ.PK. We need an opinion from "Paul Murphy"?
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Jan 1, 2008 10:34 UTC (Tue) by wildpossum (guest, #17744) [Link] A practical joke by somebody? Somebody trying to make fun of the real PM? A minor mishap in the time machine? Who knows?
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Jan 1, 2008 16:32 UTC (Tue) by boog (subscriber, #30882) [Link] Surely a SCO-owned person who has been asked to encourage a settlement or buy-out by IBM?
SCO-owned? Posted Jan 6, 2008 1:07 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Does SCO still have enough money even to own one lunatic like our friend? Maybe it is a Microsoft-owned person which is trying to make SCO look good (and Linux look bad) by making IBM settle, even if this creature has to badmouth Microsoft. Or maybe a Boies, Schiller & Flexner-owned person trying to make IBM settle so they don't lose the case... Bah, too bizarre. It must be an independent lunatic short on medication.
Predicting 2008 - ZDNet Posted Jan 1, 2008 18:16 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link] When will they have a factually accurate article? Will they have anything funnier and more bizarrely off-beam in 2008? "Paul Murphy" is kult, his last article was re-visionism about Linux not winning, and such. Really is a fun way to waste some time!
For your amusement: the author posted to defend his predictions on the Talkback links Posted Jan 2, 2008 21:03 UTC (Wed) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link] Not that he makes any more sense, but for entertainment here is what he posted (as user "murph_z"):On IBM and SCO: Actually, they [IBM] appear to have wrestled defeat from victory. The problem is that if they succeed with the Novell ploy, they won't have addressed the issue - the breach of contract. Apparently, he seems to think that because IBM won with "the Novell ploy" (i.e. SCO not owning the copyrights?) it is somehow conceding on the breach of contract. And, obviously, that IBM is somehow in the wrong (thanks to that convincing evidence of "people from Dallas," which somehow doesn't seem to have swayed anyone in the courtroom). And there were no personality conflicts in the free-software world between the GNU/Linux and BSD camps, or with Sun (which has actually become a much bigger FLOSS player as far as I can tell), before the SCO lawsuit?? On PPC: yes the Mac now uses x86 and a 2007 dual Intel 2.7Ghz runs faster than a 2002 G4 single core at 1.2Ghz - but the mac now costs more than the PC (it didn't before because you got more for the buck) - and head to head PPC vs x86 comparisons using current chips from both groups show ppc significantly ahead. Remember: cell and Xenon are both PPC, and check out the embedded industry benchmark site. Regarding the relative performance of PPC Macs and concurrent Intel PCs, he's obviously been drinking the kool-aid here (I use and like Macs, but any realistic benchmarks showed that they were neck-and-neck with Intel machines for years, sometimes faster, sometimes slower). And anyone who thinks that Cell benchmarks are at all relevant for the vast majority of software has never tried to program for it.
Trying to predict 2008 (ZDNet) Posted Jan 11, 2008 21:23 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Wow, this will teach Paul Murphy to lock his screen the next time he leaves his cube. To whoever pranked him: that was brilliant brotha! Most people just change the desktop background or send a few creepy emails.
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