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Ex-Sun Chief Dishes Dirt On Gates, Jobs
alphadogg writes "Former CEO of Sun Microsystems Jonathan Schwartz has taken to his personal blog, provocatively titled 'What I couldn't say ...,' to dish some industry dirt and tell his side of the story about the demise of Sun. He has already hinted at plans to write a book, and a new post suggests a tell-all tome could indeed be in the offing. 'I feel for Google — Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too,' Schwartz writes, apparently referring to Apple's patent lawsuit against HTC, which makes Google's Nexus One smartphone. As for Bill Gates, Schwartz says he was threatening regarding Sun's efforts in the office software space."
um welcome to the 21st century. Companies haven't used their patents defensively since the 70's, possibly even earlier. Likewise in this situation Apple WAS using it defencively, they were saying "Dont do that we have the patent on that." Which Sun responded with "We will do that because we have a patnetn on this and you are using it." You completely have no clue whatsoever about big business if you honestly think patents are meant to be certificates on a wall and nothing more.
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Excellent troll. A+.
This punk just ruined one of the greate computer companies with OOOOOOOOpen Soooource "strategy". and now he will try to make living by throwing dirt around.
what exactly the iphone has so novel to be patentable? multitouch, but on a phone? that doesn't really work.
So why does everybody feel the need to copy it - badly?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck