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Quote from: mr-bisquit on March 08, 2011, 08:02:01 PM

There is no company that does not BENEFIT from Open Source projects. Even Microsoft and Apple benefit.

There is a coffee shop down the road from my house and I guarantee they don't benefit from open source projects.Each REASON listed was separate reason.

I am quite aware of other solutions. I WORK with Vinux and have tried porting emacspeak to the PPC architecture on OpenBSD.
You aren't seeing any of what I said as products supported or developed by Sun.
The failure was in the business decisions.


mroilfield stated "There is a coffee shop down the road from my house and I guarantee they don't benefit from open source projects."

How would you know? Does it use a router? Have wireless? Look at every product they use. Do the companies they recieve supplies from use any open source application? If it's using an Apple product, they've benefited from FreeBSD. Android? Linux.

There is no company that does not benefit from Open Source. Quote
There is no company that does not
benefit from Open Source.
Even if that were absolutely true, The point is that Sun made bad market decisions. Open Source did not break or make them.
Now if Oracle-Sun gains market share, that will be a new story. Whether or not they will have success with another plan, only time will tell.
The point of this thread, IMHO, is that -
in the IT world you:
can not rest on your laurals.
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...rest on your laurels
to be so satisfied with your achievements that you make no effort to improve. - Even though you did well on all your exams, you can't simply rest on your laurels.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of laurels (a ring of leaves worn on the head in ancient times as a symbol of victory)
Apparently somebody- I won't name names- has decided that this thread is somehow about open SORES. It's not.Not quite; but, this thread is dead.
Sorry about tailing it.


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