From the Free Software Business mailing list (whose web-facing archives are the most worthless example of that software category that Iââ¬â¢ve ever seen, so no source link, sorry):
From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org>
To: <fsb@crynwr.com>
Subject: Re: Big news for 2006
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:18:35 -0800
Message-ID: <20051222231835.GA1186@zgp.org>begin mikko puhakka quotation of Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:47:55PM +0200:
Hello all, what do you predict to be the big news for Free/Open source software for 2006?
McBride/MSFT mail turns out to be a smoking gun; Red Hat adds MSFT to its Lanham act suit against SCO; MSFT makes largest settlement payment ever; RHAT buys all yââ¬â¢all.
Peopleââ¬â¢s Republic of All the Americas Except You-Know-Who holds constitutional convention in Caracas; embargoes US products and all proprietary software; nobody ever knows who has the best baseball team in the world.
Mandatory Senatorââ¬â¢s Brother-In-Lawââ¬â¢s Companyââ¬â¢s DRM signed into US law; Clear Channel buys remaining radio stations, goes to ââ¬Åall-ringtonesââ¬Â format. Make magazine sells out ââ¬Åbuild your own LP record latheââ¬Â issue as disgusted music lovers go back to analog.
Period of programming language fad cycle becomes less than period of software project completion cycle; code examples in the best-selling ââ¬ÅBeyond Rubyââ¬Â are the longest programs completed all year.
Linux! On the desktop! Next year! Really!
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Don Marti
http://zgp.org/user/dmarti/
dmarti@zgp.org
