On Thu, Oct 02, 2003, at 23:46 PDT, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > The Linux communities second-most zealous catastrophist has > spoken again: > > http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D03/10/02/1240243
My impression is that Sun is still a sucky company, attached to their proprietary Unix, and other proprietary ways. > The article features esr foretelling the iminent death of Sun > Microsystems. Having somewhat of a morbid curiosity in this > vein, I bit. I read. I looked for evidence. And lo and behold, > 80% down the page, there it was: Sun had an (admittedly) bad day > at the stock exchange. There you have it. Sun's stock went down > (as if it never had before), so esr's done the honors of writing > their eulogy. There is also talk about people leaving the company. Not a good sign. > I'm not one to draw drastic analogies (and those who know me, > please stop snickering), but doesn't this sound a bit like > medieval religion? > > "So you see, Brothers and Sisters, it was Lord McNealy's lack > of Faith in the Divine GPL that caused his estate to rot, his > whiskey reserves to smell of cheese, and the plague to leave > a permanent and fatal scar on his temporal lobe in the shap > of a Gentoo penguin. Let's all toss Lord McNealy's body into > the Open Source Volcano in the name of Our Lord Stallman, > then take some fresh herring to our web-footed Priests, lest > the same punishment afflict us as well." I dunno. I think it's more along the lines of "Hey dude, you had your chance to join our club that is making money, and now look at what's happening to you." Also painting ESR as some sort of Bishop in the Church of RMS is very misleading, and untrue. -- Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com Reno Nevada _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
