[LUG] Nice reading this year 8-|

[Ronny]

As a final part of this small biographical sketch you might find interesting checking his predictions made in his January 2002 interview to Jeremy Andrews (Kerneltrap): JA: Do you have any predictions as to the future of Linux? Alan Cox: For the next five years I guess (and its definitely a guess) Linux in TV sets/set top boxes becoming much more common More consolidation A lot of work on clustering and fault tolerant Linux Limited desktop penetration, at least until some lawmaker or civil litigants have the guts to get a just settlement out of Microsoft. People figuring out which software models work best and where Vastly more software development moving from the EU and USA to Eastern Europe, Brazil and the like, both in Linux companies and outside. Already EU fighting M$ Just possibly IBM becoming a Linux vendor proper perhaps by buying out the rest of SuSE. Possibly Linus becoming directly paid to work on Linux, perhaps via OSDL or a standards group so he isn't "owned" by a vendor - should transmeta die. (I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest) BTW, he made a right call with prediction the Linus moving to OSDL, which really happened in June, 2003. See Slashdot/Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Cox/index.shtml I predict a tricky year, one distro will pullout  I don't know which one but.... :-)    Happy New Year folks Ronny -- ******************************************************************* PGP Fingerprint: 6695 794A B84E D922 88FB 73CC 6CBD 8036 B3CD 7304 We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are *******************************************************************

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