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[ILUG] Bob Metcalf's "Why Linux Will Fail."

[ILUG] Bob Metcalf's "Why Linux Will Fail."

Kevin Dunleavy kevind at iona.com
Tue Jun 22 10:09:42 IST 1999


Twomey_Mark at emc.com wrote:
> Btw I see he has revised the date for his "Internet gonna End" idea, it
> seems to me that soon he'll be up on stage going "Any day now folks...you'll
> see and then you'll be sorry!."
> 
> I think Bob is the one drinking too much Coke

That's what I thought initially too. But his quote is about the internet
_stocks_ crashing, not the internet itself. 

<QUOTE>
CLOSING THE EIGHTH International World Wide Web Conference, I predicted
the Internet's stock bubble would burst on Nov. 8, 1999. 
</QUOTE>

Anyone think this kind of statement can be a self-fulfilling prophesy?
(If enough people get antsy in the week running up to Nov 8...)

Kevin




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