[BLUG] Link to an interesting article

[Jeff Welty]

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Joe Auty wrote:
> 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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