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Sun To Sell Linux PCs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reluctant-suitor dept.

Rubbersoul writes "Reuters.com is reporting that in "a bid to undermine arch-rival Microsoft Corp" Sun is going to jump into selling low cost Linux PCs. The article is a bit low on technical details, but is interesting none the less. Also if you take this new news with a story from yesterday about Sun pushing StarOffice for schools around the world, you really start to get an idea that sun wants to beat MS like a red headed step child ..." An editorial in the WorldTechTribute argues that Sun's education-market giveaway is exactly the sort of behavior that Microsoft has been attacked for in the past.

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  1. Child abuse by ENOENT · · Score: 0, Troll

    sun wants to beat MS like a red headed step child

    I find this expression really disturbing. When did child abuse become funny or clever? Have you ever seen an abusive parent or step-parent? It's not funny. It's not clever. It's just horrible.

    Now mod me down for being OT. I really don't care.

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    That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
  2. I think it's time... by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 1, Troll

    To buy some Microsoft stock

    Really, Every time Sun gets some idea about how to dethrone Microsoft, and crown themselves, they perpetually f*ck it up.

    Java: Good Try, but the constant fighting blew it.

    StarOffice: Uh, It's GPL, er No! ... WTF?

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    "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
  3. McNeally talks out of side of neck by ToasterTester · · Score: 1, Troll

    Per a Sun rep' Sun's Linux is only for Sun hardware, it won't be made available to the public. Worse yet they are stripping Linux down instead of fixing bugs it finds. That way it limits the amount of code it has to return to the community. Bottom line Sun Linux is a joke, its nothing but a Marketing ploy in McNealy's wallet envy of Bill Gates.

    I remember an interview with McNealy right after the anti-trust trial started. He said being a CEO you have to do whatever you can to build the business for you investors. That if he ran Microsoft he wouldn't do things any different than Gates, its just business. IMO McNealy just uses the Linux community as pawns in his battle with MS.

  4. Last gasp? by Quixote · · Score: 1, Troll
    Recall the path that SGI took a few years back. They started selling Intel-based hardware and got into Linux in a big way. While I'm thankful for their XFS every day, on hindsight it looks like the flailings of a drowning company. As an ex-SGI-stockholder, I followed their decline with interest.

    Sun appears to be going down the same path. I think it is only a matter of time before Sun becomes a shell of its former self, consigned to a slow death by their overpriced hardware.

    Think of it like the last stages of a star. Sun's now in the red-giant stage. I hope the irony of the company's name in this analogy is not lost.

  5. Scott McNasty's xpensive house-o-clones by gelfling · · Score: 1, Troll

    Gee what a frickin brainstorm. Overengineerd hardware company makes overengineered PCs with 'value added' free OS. Can you imagien the service charges???? I can - they will suck.