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McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by sgift »

DonHopkins wrote: post #10
sgift wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are free to show that the statement was wrong.

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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.

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by Etheryte »

DonHopkins wrote: post #10
sgift wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are free to show that the statement was wrong.

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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.

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by Pixie_Dust »

DonHopkins wrote: post #10
sgift wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are free to show that the statement was wrong.

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@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.

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by bloopernova »

@dang I'm honestly not sure what the correct cause of action is when one person is effectively taking over a thread with their comments. They appear to have a deep-seated hatred of Scott McNealy, so perhaps should not be commenting for their own mental and emotional health. But their comments have lots of information that will probably spark a lot of conversation.

My gut feeling is that we shouldn't "encourage" such commentary, but I know many in the HN would disagree with me.

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by tyingq »

user_named wrote: post #14
DonHopkins wrote: post #4

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YOU seem crazy.

It's lengthy, but most of the comment is quotes from articles. It's not that odd to me that someone who worked at Sun and saw things first hand might react badly to articles presenting a rose-colored view of McNealy.

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by the-dude »

bloopernova wrote: post #15

@dang I'm honestly not sure what the correct cause of action is when one person is effectively taking over a thread with their comments. They appear to have a deep-seated hatred of Scott McNealy, so perhaps should not be commenting for their own mental and emotional health. But their comments have lots of information that will probably spark a lot of conversation. My gut feeling is that we shouldn't "encourage" such…

We have enough tools at our disposal, it will sort itself out.

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by ninjin »

kriro wrote: post #16

""" Saw McNealy on his throne All alone and only bones """ I will forever associate his name with this song: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#33

Probably worth to add the context as well:

"This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our request for documentation about their UltraSPARC III processors. We want documentation, because these are the fastest processors with a per-page eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support our new W^X security feature. In the meantime, the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit mode."

Re: McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

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Post by sokoloff »

DonHopkins wrote: post #5

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> leading to him actually naming the division "SunSoft".

Calling the software division of Foo company “FooSoft” seems entirely logical to me.

> Never define and even NAME yourself in terms of your enemy

When you want to align thousands of employees to the direction you want them to go, identifying and naming a durable enemy and defining your strategy in those terms is an extremely effective strategy communications technique. It’s not the only way, but if you want to beat Microsoft, saying that’s your strategic intent is good.

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