[lbo-talk] Sun´s former CEO Scott McNealy, capitalism fanboi

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sat Jan 30 14:31:17 PST 2010


On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:17:28 -0300 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:


> I don´t agree, no company has done more for Open Source software than
> Sun (perhaps only Red Hat comes close).

But the whole point of the open source movement is that it doesn't need a "company" to do anything "for it". In fact the benefit is always the other way round: "companies" -- including Sun, and Red Hat -- are parasites on open-source, not contributors.

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