<OT> maybe not good for Virtual Box

[Michael Hipp]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Terence <terence.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/3/18 Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I'm praying that IBM acquires SUN and then shuts them down.
>>>
>> Why, Lonni? I'm just curious.
> 
> Because Sun hasn't done anything useful or innovative in over a
> decade.  Everything they've touched has withered & died.

That seems to be overstating it a bit. Lately...

- Open sourced Java
- Open sourced Solaris
- Supported OpenOffice.org continually

All 3 of those are important and represent a significant contribution to the 
OSS and Linux ecosystem.

I think I like Sun a lot better these days than when they were a very 
proprietary, self absorbed, and overpriced Unix vendor. IMHO.

But no doubt their heyday seems to have passed somewhere in the late 90s.

Michael