Our world ending? - ESR 2008 deadline, interesting read (if havn't)

[tleslie]

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html



I think he wrong however, i think in North America  MS will be still
sailing along strong for 4-5 years, and outside NA  Linux will grow at a
alarming pace, then when its time for windows2012, then NA may flip.
I think most people will  "64bit HW & Vista" by end of 2008 no matter
how crappy ass it might be, but I don't think that in anyway makes it
harder for Linux to kick ass later, at least not near the extent ESR
paints.

His mention of the next killer app. perhaps having a impact on
domination ... i am not sure there will be a must have killer app. that
would cause a massive change in what OS you use .. at least not anytime
soon.
Perhaps if someone came out with a proprietry app. that only ran on
Linux that always processed your spam correctly , never a false
positve/negative :)

The problem with a killer app. if on Linux first and likely FLOSS,
it would be on OSX and Win32/64 in a blink of an eye, so I am not sure
the killer app. unless its core to the working of
Linux-kernel/X11/kde/gnome (something not easily migrated out of a linux
distro) would win the day for Linux.



Gotta give ESR a A+ for research and trend analysis in the article
however.





-tl

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