“The audience came expecting predictions from Robert Metcalfe,
the inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com Corp., and syndicated
columnist, in the final keynote address at the eighth World Wide
Web Conference. And Metcalfe provided them…”
“Metcalfe… forecast that open-source software will not be the
force many people are hoping. Noting that the predictions being
made for Linux today parallel those made for Unix in the 1980s, he
observed that Windows, not Unix, dominates the desktop today.
“… the open source movement will fizzle because it is
“idealistic,” by which he said he meant counter to capitalism,
intellectual property, and other things “that work.”
“Linux will never overtake Wintel even as Wintel declines.”