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"Nearly three decades of competing without a notable incident of our folks going off course morally or legally."

Not many tech CEOs can say that.



And also why selling Sun to Oracle was like selling the rabbit to the wolf. Not sure Oracle can go three minutes without an exec at some level deliberately slamming right through moral and legal guardrails.


Gates and Ballmer even mocked the anti-trust investigation into Microsoft with a clip of the hearing of Scott McNealy in a video: https://youtu.be/IY2j_GPIqRA?t=14 (audio warning).


It's his memo.

My epitaph will also say what a wonderful person I was.


You are free to show that the statement was wrong.


Lest we forget, "You have zero privacy. Get over it." came from him (https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/)

Sun Microsystems under McNealy were also no friends of Linux or open source. Though less visible than Microsoft, plenty of FUD came from Sun about how Linux would never equal proper operating systems like Solaris. (In a sense, he wasn't wrong; IMO Linux didn't really catch up until Sun Microsystems had effectively died by being sold to Oracle to be gutted.)


You omitted "anyway" and that does change the tone.


McNealy was also a member of the 1776 Commission, and held a fundraiser for Trump at his mansion.


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> You said "You are free to show that the statement was wrong." And I did. Now suddenly you don't want to play the game you asked for [...]

This is both childish and absurd, surely you can try and make your point in a way that doesn't make a complete fool of yourself.


I have seen your posts and that you don't like the man. I don't like supporting Trump either. But that has nothing to do with the statement above.

edit: Since you edited your post since I've answered: I also disagree with his opinions on Corona. Still has nothing to do with the statement above.

edit2: I'm tired of you stealth editing your post every other minute and your accusations. Find someone else to play.


you can counter this easily by quoting him fully in your post... if you actually care about such a discussion


@DonHopkinsSee: "See my other posts about McNealy wanting to be as Evil as Bill Gates and Microsoft"

Do please enlighten us out of your own extensive experience.


Even Ed McCracken could write something like that about himself.

He'd use crayons or something to do it, but still.




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