[BLUG] Link to an interesting article

[Joe Auty]

My opinion on the article:

It's hard to take him too seriously as a Journalist when he says his  
reasons for not liking the Mac is because it is "mushy"... WTF? A  
little inarticulate there... How about a rational justification  
rather than just personal emotional feelings? (Not that it is some  
sort of sin to dislike the Mac)... This would be like reading a  
NYTimes article where the columnist says that the Iraq war "just  
feels icky", and therefore we should get out of that country =)

There have been many times in history where Microsoft has copied  
Apple, I don't think people will all of a sudden decide that they  
don't want their Windows OS to be more Mac-like. In fact, with  
Apple's market share and revenue stream growing, this might be all  
the more reason for Microsoft to attempt to jump aboard the  
bandwagon. For a company of its size with the vast resources it has,  
they don't seem to have a great track record of innovating original  
ideas, nor do they have to to fulfill their business goals. This is  
all nothing new, we've seen this play out before.

As far as companies having secret Linux ports of products, that is  
likely... My main beef with his article is his opinion on the  
direction of the industry. It seems premature to call Microsoft's  
demise, people like him have been doing this for years. I'd love to  
see Microsoft demise, but I don't think he can justify this argument  
right now, and I expect good justification from somebody in charge of  
selling his opinions =)



On Jan 25, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Pawsitive Results wrote:

> I actually thought this was one of his more-on-track articles
> since...since I don't remember when. Odd.
>
> Ana
>
> On 1/25/07, Scott Blaydes <sblaydes_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> But he was right about Apple switching to Intel chips.  I don't take
>> much stock of what he says, but he has nailed some things that I
>> didn't think would happen.  Course if you predict as much as he does,
>> you're bound to be right sometime...infinite number of monkeys on
>> typewriters theory..
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Scott Blaydes
>>
>> On 1/24/07, Mark Krenz <mark_at_slugbug.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >   Heh, that's funny.  I was thinking about writing pretty much  
>> the exact
>> > same thing.  But refrained.
>> >
>> >   John Dvorak just doesn't get it anymore.  He's a man from the old
>> > school days trying desperately to fit in and failing miserably.   
>> Most of
>> > his articles are way off from reality.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:33:38AM GMT, Joe Auty  
>> [joe_at_netmusician.org] said the following:
>> > > Not to dump on the person who posted this article or belittle  
>> them or
>> > > anything like that, but John Dvorak, the guy who wrote this  
>> article,
>> > > has I believe confessed to coming up with provocative subjects  
>> and
>> > > saying crazy things to draw attention to himself and his  
>> articles.
>> > >
>> > > I haven't had a chance to really dig into the article yet, but I
>> > > thought I would share with you my opinion that just about  
>> everything
>> > > of Dvoark's I've read in the past has made me believe that he  
>> is bat
>> > > shit crazy, the Bill O'Reilly of IT writing.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Just my two cents/knee jerk reaction, not commenting on his  
>> opinions
>> > > in this article =)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Paul Proctor wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246401,00.html
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Mark Krenz
>> > Bloomington Linux Users Group
>> > http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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