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I miss Sun's brand of idealism before profits sometimes.
by dman 13y ago
I miss Sun's brand of idealism before profits sometimes.
- yuhong 13y agoYea, it is sad that Jonathan Schwartz had problems too.
- mrbill 13y agoI miss Sun's "use our enterprise software, only pay if you need support" licensing. Oracle deep-sixed that as soon as possible, along with the pseudo-hobbyist licensing terms for the OS, effectively killing a large portion of the hobbyist and "sysadmin with a setup at home" market. I ran (well, still do) a website dedicated to Sun/Solaris hardware and software users, was on the OpenSolaris external pre-release beta testing team/group, and heard lots of moaning about this, even from sales people within Oracle itself. Pre-Oracle Sun was gracious and gave me a loaded SunFire T1000 to run the site and mailing lists, etc, on. Post-Sun Oracle gave me the finger.