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Don't Stymie Nanotech

Posted by Hemos on from the let-science-be-free dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A new paper released by the Pacific Research Institute says that nanotechnology holds benefits for society if not blocked by misguided regulation or outright bans. Already, some prominent individuals (like Bill Joy) have questioned the rationale of continuing nanotech research - PRI's paper explains that nanotech has more benefits than drawbacks, and that bans and heavy regulation are not in society's best interests"

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  1. VAX Unix - Sun - (indirectly) Linux - dead Sun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's kind of sad that Sun is a victim of its own success.
    They think that hardware is not a commodity and that software is not a commodity.
    Too bad for the world that they did an 'adobe postscript' type lawsuit/legal dance to 'protect' java.
    It seems that they protected java from becomming popular by giving MS the incentive to not push java.
    Linux and MS independantly will make Sun's business unprofitable (not by illegal means).
    x86 hardware + linux will undercut an equivalent Sun box price by > 75%

    This means Sun will eigther have to:
    1. only sell to the high high end
    2. go commodity hardware (not likely)
    3. sell out/merge with HP or IBM

    I cannot think of one piece of SUN software
    that is not replaced with a free version (linux).