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Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the does-his-wife-dance-with-joy dept.

maitas writes "In this interview, Bill Joy talks about green energy and technology. His main point is: 'I'm all for sharing, but I recognize the truly great things may not come from that environment.'" The interview really runs the spectrum from the iPad to Microsoft, and from green tech to nanotech.

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  1. Who is Bill Joy? by camperdave · · Score: 5, Informative
    For those like me who are wondering who Bill Joy is:
    1. Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
    2. Heavily involved in the development of BSD UNIX
    3. Wrote the text editor vi.
    4. Advocates relinquishing development of nano-tech, genetics, robotics, and AI. He feels that an arms race in any of those fields would be detrimental to human survival.
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    When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!