Re: commentary by Linus Torvalds

2001-12-02 Thread Kurt Schrader

The article at http://kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=398 shows much of 
this thread, including why Linus thinks Sun is doomed.

Kurt

On Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 02:39 PM, Jon Stevens wrote:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2361245693dhl=enselm=linux.kernel.
 Pine.LNX.4.33.0111301643170.1224-10%40penguin.transmeta.com

 I wonder why he says Sun is doomed.

 -jon


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Re: commentary by Linus Torvalds

2001-12-02 Thread Kevin A. Burton

Jon Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2361245693dhl=enselm=linux.kernel.
 Pine.LNX.4.33.0111301643170.1224-10%40penguin.transmeta.com
 
 I wonder why he says Sun is doomed.

I always wonder how people can say any of these companies are doomed.  They have
billions in the bank.

It would take years and years and years of stupidity to drain this money down to
0.

SUN, Microsoft, Oracle.  They are not going anywhere.  They will just change
their strategy.

... then again you should never underestimate the power of stupidity :)

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Re: commentary by Linus Torvalds

2001-12-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.

On 12/2/01 10:40 PM, Neville Burnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 anyone remember Lotus Developments and WordPerfect Corporation ... they
 had billions in the bank too
 

And before last month, Enron seemed to be doing ok :)

 
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 Jon Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 
 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2361245693dhl=enselm=linux.ker
 nel.
 Pine.LNX.4.33.0111301643170.1224-10%40penguin.transmeta.com
 
 I wonder why he says Sun is doomed.
 
 I always wonder how people can say any of these companies are doomed.
 They have
 billions in the bank.
 
 It would take years and years and years of stupidity to drain this money
 down to
 0.
 
 SUN, Microsoft, Oracle.  They are not going anywhere.  They will just
 change
 their strategy.
 
 ... then again you should never underestimate the power of stupidity :)

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