Sun's unreal Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Iadonisi
Yesterday, I responded to Microsoft^WSun's so-called 'Reality-Check' at http://www.sun.com/executives/realitycheck/reality-022002.html with this response: == Very Informative in one sense, that is: This article makes it clear that Sun is no better than Microsoft when addressing competitive

Re: Sun's unreal Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, at 3:21pm, Paul Iadonisi wrote: IBM, on the other hand, is taking the intelligent position: Observe where the world of software is going and embrace it. Though I am cautious and skeptical of Big Blue's participation in the Free Software / open source communities, what

Re: Sun's unreal Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Mark Komarinski
'course, IBM learned their lesson and are playing nice now. Nice being relative to a multi-billion dollar company. -Mark On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 15:39, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, at 3:21pm, Paul Iadonisi wrote: IBM, on the other hand, is taking the intelligent position: Observe

Re: Sun's unreal Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I agree. In my $.02 opinion, what made Microsoft great is that at one time they were more open than anyone else at the time. Their stuff was easier to work with... remember all the ugly copy protection schemes vendors used to prevent people from making copies of the software they shelled out