<OT> maybe not good for Virtual Box

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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

Bloatware.

> - Open sourced Solaris

Desperation at the loss of market share to Linux.

> - Supported OpenOffice.org continually

The consensus is that Sun is holding *back* progress in OOo
development, not helping it.


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