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Subject: Re: The entire history of GuhNoo/FOSS/Linux hobbyware in 3 words
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 02:11:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-05, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-06-05 11:57 a.m., DFS wrote:
>> 
>> "inspired by <insert commercial app>"
>
> It should be noted that Linux's openness is a major reason for why Sun 
> Microsystems went bankrupt. Sun's stuff was still better, but people 
> could create a bunch of servers for cheap using Linux that it didn't 
> even matter.
>
> I guess that's Linux's greatest achievement: killing Sun and putting 
> lots of people out of work.

I think Sun was like a lot of big, successful corporations. They got fat and 
complacent and failed to innovate. Sun was already on its way down long 
before Linux became the dominant web-server OS. Microsoft specifically set 
out to destroy Sun. When I helped to remove a PBX switch and phones at a 
closed Mirosoft corporate building in Dallas (in the early 2000s) I saw some 
of their material about destroying Sun in the assorted trash they just left 
lying around. I think they called it "Sundown" — or something like that. 
They considered Sun a major competitor but, by then, they had pretty much 
done their job.

As for Sun OS being "better" than Linux. Maybe at the time, but Linux was 
already innovating while Sun was resting on their laurels.

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