Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM

gandhi_2 writes "Sun Microsystems soared in European trading after a report that it was in talks to be acquired by IBM. The Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter," reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company's closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment."

Comments

Re:Good idea!

[Virak]

Wow, you're impressively retarded. They didn't say "we disagreed with the GPL and decided to make our own license that by necessity of said disagreements ended up GPL-incompatible", they said that GPL-incompatibility *itself* was a goal, not a side effect of design choices of the license. There's really no way to look at it that does not make Sun look like a bunch of childish assholes.

(And if all they cared about was not having some of the GPL's restrictions, they could've easily went with another license that *is* GPL-compatible.)

Re:This could be Schwartz' greatest trick ever.

[jcr]

You don't care what I think,

That's correct. I'm in agreement with everyone else in the world on that point.

you have to reply to everything I say.

Have to? No. Like I said above, it's like popping bubble wrap.

-jcr