I generally assume that people who ask, "Is X dead?" or state, "X is dead" actually mean "dead" in the sense Paul Graham used in his essay about Microsoft:
> What I meant was not that Microsoft is suddenly going to stop making money, but that people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about them.
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I generally assume that people who ask, "Is X dead?" or state, "X is dead" actually mean "dead" in the sense Paul Graham used in his essay about Microsoft:
> What I meant was not that Microsoft is suddenly going to stop making money, but that people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about them.
http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html
Which is a mix of arrogance and selective blindness unlikely to do that self-declared "leading edge" much good.