[sf-lug] Good news or merest speculation

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

> Hi LUGers.
> 
> > Last phase of the desktop wars?
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Posted on 2020-09-25 by admin
[...]
> So read the article at:
> <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764>


Eric's a friend, and (also) I'm not dismissing his speculation out of
hand -- but still, I'm unavoidably reminded of this item on my Lexicon
Web page:

   Betteridge's Law

   "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the
   word 'no'." 

   British technology journalist Ian Betteridge made this observation 
   in a February 2009 article, reasoning that journalists resort to 
   that style of headline when they know the story is probably bullshit, 
   and don't have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want 
   to run it.

-- 
Cheers,                           "2020 is pulling out more plot devices than 
Rick Moen                         a TV series on the brink of being canceled."
rick at linuxmafia.com                          (Seen on Reddit, Oct. 2, 2020.)
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