OrangeCrate presented an email interview with James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. Mr. Gosling answered some tough questions and refute some of the analysts’ propositions as to what exactly the Sun Microsystems and Microsoft settlement means for the future of Linux.
An Email Interview with James Gosling
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The message won’t penetrate the thick skulls of the trolls.
I have noticed the knee-jerk reaction to the settlement: Sun and Microsoft are joining forces against Linux! Yeah, sure, and a few days before that, Sun landed an agreement with Wal-mart to sell Linux desktop computers with Linux.
Yeah, sure, and a few days before that, Sun landed an agreement with Wal-mart to sell Linux desktop computers with Linux.
Duh, that’s all part of the conspiracy. Think independently! (but which happens to be exactly like a million slashdotters)
Is the “403 Forbidden” part of the conspiracy as well 😛
of course it is. who do you think removed the interview.
Does anyone have it in cache or something ?
Or someone just lost James Goslings’ friendship
James Gosling: There are now a whole lot of people who no longer have to pay attention to, and be constrained by, the litigation process. We fell great about having won and are energized about moving forward.
They’re no longer constrained by the litigation process, instead they are constrained by the terms under which MS gives them $2 billion. Bet the constraints are a lot more onerous now than they were.
Look for “Indecent Proposal 2” coming to a theater soon. Would you sleep with Bill Gates for $2 billion?
I want to know why they didn’t consider using FreeBSD as a base for JDS instead of SuSE.
You’d think, with SunOS being based on BSD, that they would have be more inclined to stick with that lineage.
Would you sleep with Bill Gates for $2 billion?
yaaah! and his mom for that kinda scritch.
besides, then I could finally afford a mac!! ( kidding, i have one already, but I’d like a sun workstation, say that 8000 buck one)
I guess the editors simply have no sense of humor and cannot appreciate how Sun getting in bed with Microsoft is so much like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Oh well, there is always Slashdot for a place that supports freedom of speech.
Funny, I thought giving Mr. Gosling a chance to say his piece was giving him the right of Free Speech. People are able to respond to what he says, but you claim that supports censorship?
How is giving him a chance to speak supporting censorship? Explain that position first, if you don’t mind. If you don’t talk with the participants, then you are only talking AT them. We have analysts that do that all the time, believing we should just accept their interpretation. I asked myself why we should believe their bull; why not go to the source and ask the questions?
If that is supporting censorship, then you have found a new definition that I was unaware of for that word.
McNealy for years calling Bill Gates “Darth Vader” and such, but he’s got a new hockey jersey now…
My spoof “To Serve Linux”, of the Twilight Episode, “To Serve Man”, was deleted by OSNews.
As it was clearly humor, I was astounded at the level of bigotry and bias demonstrated by the staff of OSNews. Thus my “To Serve Censorship” comment.
“I want to know why they didn’t consider using FreeBSD as a base for JDS instead of SuSE.
You’d think, with SunOS being based on BSD, that they would have be more inclined to stick with that lineage.”
SunOS was BSD, but Solaris is SVR4. They played a few marketing games with the product names. SunOS 4.x was retroactively named “Solaris 1.x” and the command prompt in Solaris identifies itself as “SunOS 5.x”. The transition from SunOS to Solaris was a near disaster for Sun, by they way.