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Co-founder Joy to leave Sun

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @02:50AM from the insert-setting-sun-joke-here dept.

TheLinuxWarrior writes "An article at CNET says Bill Joy, Sun Micro co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company." You'd think after two decades of working at Sun, they could've found a better picture!

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and vi by tigersha · 2003-09-09 03:08 · Score: 5, Informative

And he was responsible for vi. For this I cannot decide whether he should be praised as a computer great or be disgraced as the author of the greatest horrible-excuse-for-an-editor known to man.

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html

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The article is slightly incorrect by watzinaneihm · 2003-09-09 03:16 · Score: 5, Informative

The article says sun was co-founded by Scott mcneally an Bill Joy. Actually there were 4 of them out of which 2 have already quit. So with the third guy on the way out it leaves only Scott behind.
Bill Joy can easily take a lot of credit for Java though

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