To quote Jerkface ( http://www.jfplayhouse.com/2009/09/suns-best-buy-ever.html ):
“It’s a common, mythical belief that the most popular open source projects are developed by large numbers of volunteer programmers that make small contributions. In reality the leading projects like Firefox have a paid staff that performs most of the programming. Community code contributions are in fact minor.
“Like many before him the Sun CEO [Johnathan Schwartz] thought a million programmers would gleefully work for free and improve OpenOffice, MySQL and Solaris, and at some point Sun would magically profit. He basically went with an open source underpants gnomes strategy. The million programmers didn’t show up and neither did the profits. Now he’s being bought by a proprietary company.”
Never mind, lads. There’s always Google. And fridges. And supercomputers. And mainframes.
Bonus! It also links to an exceptionally demented prognostication by SJVN:
“Sun’s worst move? No way. This is Sun’s best move, and certainly its best chance, to become once more a major IT power.”
Who writes this rubbish?
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BestTMEvar(TM)
A definitive trademark... And indeed yet again a superb example of VonSchlieffenStylePincerManoeuvre™
To be fair, .NET Jerkface (http://www.jfplayhouse.com/) provided all of the yuks. I am merely his humble servant.
(He's a part of the Community. Click'n'Giggle!)
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