Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL

[Thufir]

On Mar 21, 8:38 am, JEDIDIAH <j...@nomad.mishnet> wrote:
> On 2009-03-21, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:42:59 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>
> >> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
> >>> Rjack wrote:
> >>>  > the FSF propaganda campaign is falling flat on its ass
>
> >>> On the contrary, the campaign successfully led to Sun releasing Java
> >>> under the GPL,
>
> >> Putting SUN's stock price into free fall, bringing massive layoffs, and
> >> fire sale of the company.
>
> > So you assert without establishing any sort of cause and effect.
>
>     Sun is much like MacOS, they are primarily a hardware company
> selling overpriced hardware bundled with their OS. Now Java was
> never a tightly bottle up proprietary thing. It was always subject
> to cloning and that was going on at full speed when Sun liberated
> their version of Java.
>
>     Sun's problem is being less able to sell overpriced hardware
> for people trying to avoid running Windows in their datacenter.

What I meant was that the decline of Sun cannot, I think, be
attributed to Java.


-Thufir