On Mar 21, 8:38 am, JEDIDIAH <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-03-21, Thufir Hawat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:42:59 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > >> Hyman Rosen wrote: > > >>> Rjack wrote: > >>> > the FSF propaganda campaign is falling flat on its ass > > >>> On the contrary, the campaign successfully led to Sun releasing Java > >>> under the GPL, > > >> Putting SUN's stock price into free fall, bringing massive layoffs, and > >> fire sale of the company. > > > So you assert without establishing any sort of cause and effect. > > Sun is much like MacOS, they are primarily a hardware company > selling overpriced hardware bundled with their OS. Now Java was > never a tightly bottle up proprietary thing. It was always subject > to cloning and that was going on at full speed when Sun liberated > their version of Java. > > Sun's problem is being less able to sell overpriced hardware > for people trying to avoid running Windows in their datacenter.
What I meant was that the decline of Sun cannot, I think, be attributed to Java. -Thufir _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
