10 Linux Predictions for 2009
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| Everyone wants to know what's going to happen in the new
| year as if anyone can accurately predict these things.
| However, one can deduce, with reasonable accuracy, that
| there will be innovations that are designed to get our
| attention. This is my list of Linux-oriented predictions
| for 2009.
| The keyword for 2009 is Innovation.
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| 1. Buyouts/Mergers - 2009 will see its share of company
| buyouts and mergers--all innovation-related. Larger
| companies will buy up smaller ones with innovative products
| and services. Many new open source millionaires will be
| created through these transitions.
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| 2. Gadgets, Gadgets, and more Gadgets - This will be the
| Year of the Gadget and they'll be Linux-powered. You'll see
| dozens of new gadgets from phones to home appliances to
| weather stations come out in 2009 all designed to attract
| your attention and your money. Watch for rapidly falling
| prices on these little gems along the way too.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3726.html
Will 2009 Be Open or Closed?
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| As the end of 2008 approaches, people's thoughts naturally
| turn to 2009, and what it might hold. The dire economic
| situation means that many will be wondering what the year
| will bring in terms of employment and their financial
| situation. This is not the place to ponder such things, nor
| am I qualified to do so. Instead, I'd like to discuss a
| matter that is related to these larger questions, but which
| focusses on issues particularly germane to Linux Journal:
| will 2009 be a year in which openness thrives, or one in
| which closed thinking re-asserts itself?
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| Aside from these contradictory trends in the sphere of
| politics, there is a separate development underway that
| could have a huge effect on the world of free software. In
| part as a reaction to the massive failure of a financial
| system based almost entirely on the pursuit of money as an
| end in itself, with little thought to "externalities" like
| respect for people or the environment, many people are
| beginning to ask whether it is time for a radically new
| approach, based on different values.
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| One of the candidates for such an alternative is a system
| similar to the kind of peer-based production that lies at
| the heart of free software. In other words, one that values
| collaboration and sharing over ruthless competition and
| exclusive ownership. Such an epochal shift would obviously
| take rather more than a year to realise. But if these ideas
| succeed in taking root - and censorship threats
| notwithstanding - 2009 might eventually turn out to be not
| just open in important ways, but the start of an entire era
| of openness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/will-2009-be-open-or-closed
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Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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